"Toleration, as it is now widely preached, may be a very one-sided bargain. It will not do to let falsehood and moral idiocy say to truth and honesty, "I will tolerate you if you will tolerate me.""
Coventry Patmore

January 1, 1970

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Magna Moralia XLII, p. 193.

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