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The Labor Of Thinking Was So Great To Me, That Having Once Come To A Conclusion Upon Any Subject, I Would Rather Persist In It, Right Or Wrong, Than Be At The Trouble Of Going Over The Process Again To Revise And Rectify My Judgment.
-Maria Edgeworth
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The Labor Of Thinking Was So Great

Maria Edgeworth
The Labor Of Thinking Was So Great To Me, That Having Once Come To A Conclusion Upon Any Subject, I Would Rather Persist In It, Right Or Wrong, Than Be At The Trouble Of Going Over The Process Again To Revise And Rectify My Judgment.
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Thinking
Judgment
Trouble
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