“The delusion of invincibility can never grow up in the mind of anyone except one who has never met a strong antagonist.”

The Infallibility of the Church (London: John Murray, 1888; 4th ed. 1914), p. 111 https://archive.org/stream/a607385500salmuoft#page/n143/mode/2up.

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