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Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. (Proverbs 23)

Tokens of a Little and Narrow Mind

In effect, to be much taken up with the interests of self, to live upon the breath of others, to be full of resentment for every injury, and watchful to retaliate it; these are the properties and tokens of a little and narrow mind.

John Newton
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