No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction. (Samuel Butler (novelist))

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

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