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“The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.”

I’ve been thinking a lot about that line from The Razor’s Edge, a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. I read that book maybe a decade ago when I was so sure of all the things I knew in my beating heart were right, most of which I would discard as wrong.

Maugham’s book takes its…

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