“Or. I hate that word. It’s two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reasonable doubt.”
Source: Nineteen Minutes
“It is not reasonings that are wanted now; for there are books stuffed full of stoical reasonings.”
Of Courage, Chap. xxix.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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