The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion.
John Stuart Mill
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But these few are the salt of the earth without them human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.
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the general or prevailing opinion in any subject is rarely or never the whole truth it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied
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