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Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed. ↗

— Adam Clarke

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Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust. ↗

— Marianne Moore

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The fact that I was fortunate enough to escape contagion, in spite of frequent, sometimes daily contacts with the disease, was because I soon guessed how it spread. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

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Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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