Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our c…

Charles Caleb Colton
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Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1828). Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think, p.76
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