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Walter Bagehot: Let us not be bigots with a doubt, and persecutors without a creed.

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Let us not be bigots with a doubt, and persecutors without a creed.
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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot warns against being intolerant in the face of uncertainty and doubt.

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