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It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance. ✨ Thomas Paine (1826). An examination of the passages in the New Testament quoted from the Old and called prophecies concerning Jesus Christ. To which is prefixed, An essay on dreams. Also an appendix, p.46
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