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It felt like a terrible burden upon her when she realized for the first time that people could have such different opinions about so many things. And not just evil, godless people disagreeing with good people, but also good people such as Brother Edwin and Sira Eirik—or her mother and father. She suddenly realized that they too thought differently about many things.

— Sigrid Undset The Wreath (1920)

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