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It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

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Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.
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Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics! I've heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I've never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
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She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
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