A Dull Mind, Once Arriving At An Inference That Flatters A Desire, Is Rarely Able To Retain The Impression That The Notion From Which The Inference Started Was Purely Problematic.

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A dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters a desire,
is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which
the inference started was purely problematic.
-- George Eliot

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