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Wherever he found his speech growing too modern -- which was about every sentence or two -- he ladled in a few such Scriptural phrases as "exceeding s...more

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A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a sing...more

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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

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The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bittern...more

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In your country and mine we should have the privilege of making fun of this kind of morality, but it would be unkind to do it here.Many of these peopl...more

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Adam is fading out. It is on account of Darwin and that crowd. I can see that he is not going to last much longer. There's a plenty of signs. He is ge...more

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The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

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That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.