A Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
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No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.
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Blessed be the memory of those few brethren who contended so strenuously for their constitutional rights and religious freedom, against such an overwhelming force of desperadoes!
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