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Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.
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