There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and …

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There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'. ✨ Mark Twain (2014). Following the Equator, p.72, Trajectory Inc
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