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Title: The Wisdom of Fools

Author: Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

Release date: November 23, 2016 [eBook #53579]
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Language: English

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Boston and New York.

THE WISDOM OF FOOLS

BY

MARGARET DELAND

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
MDCCCXCVII

COPYRIGHT, 1897,
BY MARGARET DELAND
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CONTENTS

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WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS, ’TIS FOLLY TO BE WISE3
THE HOUSE OF RIMMON66
COUNTING THE COST136
THE LAW, OR THE GOSPEL?191