Whether you are really right or wrong doesn't matter it's the belief that counts.
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Female beauty in an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often I am no sure at all that the neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind.
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The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
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