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Samuel Laman Blanchard - We insist on self-roasting,...
We insist on self-roasting, by slow degrees, and at regular intervals, to show our contempt for experience, and to develop our chief virtue, which is obstinacy. (Samuel Laman Blanchard)

We insist on self-roasting, by slow degrees, and at regular intervals, to show our contempt for experience, and to develop our chief virtue, which is obstinacy.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

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