 ... to be true to itself. It labors under its guilty possession, and knows not what to do with it. The human heart was not made for the residence of such an inhabitant. It finds itself preyed on by a torment which it dares not acknowledge to God or man....  Wharton and Stillé's Medical Jurisprudence - Page 700by Francis Wharton, Moreton Stillé - 1882Full view - About this book
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