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David Hare

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Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate little else than the changeableness of the weather.
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Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Guesses at Truth (London: Macmillan, ([1827-48] 1867) p. 526.

 
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