Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure …

Ernest Hemingway
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Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2014). The Hemingway Collection, p.2699, Simon and Schuster
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Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (2014). The Hemingway Collection, p.2699, Simon and Schuster

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