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In the nine heavens are eight Paradises;
Where is the ninth one? In the human breast.
Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises,
But blessedness dwells in the human breast.

— William R. Alger

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When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.

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