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SUPERSTITION

Life Magazine 1883
From LIFE magazine, March 22, 1883

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.
- "Is Shakespeare Dead?"

When the human race has once acquired a supersitition nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.
- Autobiography of Mark Twain

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
- Following the Equator, Pudd'nead Wilson's New Calendar

Jim

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