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A popular delusion is often the basis of a great abuse.
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Such are the effects of the exaggerations of popular delusion.
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Never was popular delusion so suddenly and so completely dispelled.
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This is something like a good solid practical popular delusion.
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It is a popular delusion that Speyside men are immortal; this is true only of distillers.
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It is, we know, a popular delusion that Ulster is a braggart whose words are empty bluff.
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The popular notion that the pound sterling constitutes a fixed standard of value is merely a popular delusion.
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When suspicions have been kindled into popular delusion, truth, reason, and justice, speak to the ears of adders.
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Such was the state of things when the first victim of this extraordinary popular delusion were brought to trial.
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A popular delusion, my friend.
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Lilly's opinions, and his pretended science, were such favourites with the age, that the learned Gataker wrote professedly against this popular delusion.
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But even if I shared the popular delusion, I do not see that I could have made any essential difference in the play.
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At one time it was a popular delusion that the mole was devoid of the power of sight, but this is not the case.
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It is a popular delusion that fakirs will not accept alms from anyone for any purpose, for I have considerable personal experience to the contrary.
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When this country has been endangered either by arbitrary power or popular delusion, truth has still possessed one irresistible organ, and justice one inviolable tribunal.
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The idea, then, that because one lives perpetually among books, he absorbs all the learning that they contain, must be abandoned as a popular delusion.
