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Page 227 - Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time.
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| Title | A Compend of History: From the Earliest Times A Compend of History: From the Earliest Times, Samuel Whelpley |
| Author | Samuel Whelpley |
| Publisher | R.B. Collins, 1856 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 10 Mar 2007 |
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