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Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

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Frances Wright

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Born: September 6, 1795
Died: December 13, 1852 (aged 57)
Bio: Frances Wright, also widely known as Fanny Wright, was a Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, abolitionist, and social reformer, who became a U. S. citizen in 1825.
Known for:
  1. Views of society and manners in America (1821)
  2. Reason, religion, and morals (1834)
  3. Resuscitating Friendship
  4. The Week Away
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