It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out o…

Charles Caleb Colton
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It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1824). Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think, p.69
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