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“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]”
― Wealth, War and Wisdom
[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]”
― Wealth, War and Wisdom
“You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.”
― The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
― The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
“Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.”
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
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