I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opi…

Thomas Browne
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I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne (1869). Religio Medici: Hydriotaphia : and the Letter to a Friend, p.10
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I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself. ✨ Sir Thomas Browne (1869). Religio Medici: Hydriotaphia : and the Letter to a Friend, p.10

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