Your Candor Is Worth Everything To Your Cause. It Is Refreshing To Find A Person With A New Theory Who Frankly Confesses That He Finds Difficulties, Insurmountable, At Least For The Present. - SearchQuotes

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Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.

Asa Gray

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