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So long as the body is affected through the mind no audacious device even of the most manifestly dishonest character can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or even a partial faith.
So long as the body is affected through the mind no audacious device even of the most manifestly dishonest character can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or even a partial faith.
Approximate author period: c. 1809 AD · industrial
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- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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- Approximate author period: c. 1809 AD · industrial
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