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Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.

A. Powell Davies

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A. Powell Davies
Age: 54 †
Born: 1902
Born: January 1
Died: 1957
Died: January 1
Author
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Arthur Davies
Evil
Constraints
Often
Piety
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Confined
Great
Petty
People
Possessed
Notion
Small
Pieties
Religion
Wrought

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