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mind and the record of its development
Conversely, I take it for granted that no liberally educated man or woman of the present day requires to be instructed as to the value of the study of history in all its aspects, or to be told that folklore cannot be justly called trivial, seeing that it has to do with the history of the race—in a wider sense, I may say with the history of the human mind and the record of its development.
— from Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 2 of 2) by Rhys, John, Sir

man and the rest of its doing
Justice has been done an innocent man, and the rest of its doing lies in your capable hands.
— from The Riddle of the Frozen Flame by Mary E. Hanshew


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