"The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame."

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"The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame."

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"There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her."

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"Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost."

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"Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but live for it."

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"Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false."

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"Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it."

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"Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils."

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