Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world insincerity is the most dangerous.
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James Froude was a 19th-century English historian, novelist and biographer. James Anthony Froude was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine. From his upbringing amidst the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, Froude intended to become a clergyman, but doubts about the doctrines of the Anglican church, published in his scandalous 1849 novel The Nemesis of Faith, drove him to abandon his religious career. Read more on Wikipedia →

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