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Date: April, 1871
"In cases like the Caliph Omar's, it governs all other desires, absorbs the whole nature, and rules the whole life."
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Date: April, 1871
"When the inability to prevent the recurrence of the idea is very great, so that the reason is powerless on the mind, the consequent "conviction" is an eager, irritable, and ungovernable passion."
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