“It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.”

— Christian D. Larson

Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912), p. 219

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Prolific author of metaphysical and New Thought books 1874–1962

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