“The most positive men are the most credulous…”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
“Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.”
Reported in Louis Klopsch, ed., Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (1896), p. 195.
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