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“The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Speech, Nov. 25, 1864.
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a408786d57055d0def639d356d89bc7b3400f70d17fbe49e048474e32830ae27
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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