• There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

  Source: In Reckless Ecstasy (1904)

  Carl Sandburg
  American Poet 1878-1967
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. understanding
2. insulted
3. other
4. their

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There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted. by : Carl Sandburg

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