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When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.

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George Meredith
Age: 81 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 12
Died: 1909
Died: May 18
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Writer
Portsmouth
England
Atheism
Boys
Spasm
Week
Fable
Quite
Lasted
Since
Swallowed
Religion
Fables
Christian
Weeks
Never
Six

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