When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all. (John Lancaster Spalding)

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

John Lancaster Spalding

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