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

The Vice of the Age

It is not reasoning but neglecting to reason, and to extend conclusions to their just consequences, that I condemn as the vice of the age.

John Newton
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