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I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergymans family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnes
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"I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind"

- Alfred Russel Wallace

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Alfred Russel Wallace This quote is written / told by Alfred Russel Wallace between January 8, 1823 and November 7, 1913. He was a famous Scientist from United Kingdom. The author also have 21 other quotes.

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