828. Credulity
"Wonders are willingly told, and willingy heard."
Johnson: Pope (Lives of the Poets)
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1,816. Credulity; Novelty; Skepticism
"Every novelty appears more wonderful as it is more remote from any thing with which experience or testimony has hitherto acquainted us; and if it passes further beyond the notions that we have been accustomed to form, it becomes at last incredible."
Johnson: Idler #87 (December 15, 1759)
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