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Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to other

Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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