

“I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. — A fit story for ridicule, if it was written to be believed; or of laughter, if it was intended to try what credulity could swallow; for, if it could swallow Jonah and the whale it could swallow anything.”
― The Age of Reason
― The Age of Reason

“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch

“Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch

“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.”
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“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
― Impressions of Theophrastus Such
― Impressions of Theophrastus Such

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