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Frances Wright Quotes:

Ocupation: Writer

Life: September 6, 1795 - December 13, 1852

Birthday: September 6

Death: December 13

We are on the earth, and they tell us of heaven; we are human beings, and they tell us of angels and devils; we are matter, and they tell us of spirit; we have five senses whereby to admit truths, and a reasoning faculty by which to build our belief upon them; and they tell us of dreams dreamed thousands of years ago, which our experience flatly contradicts.

- Frances Wright

source: Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.45

topic: Dream, Angel, Years, Angel And Devil

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