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Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "We degrade Providence too much by attributing our ideas to it..."

We degrade Providence too much by attributing our ideas to it out of annoyance at being unable to understand it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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