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"Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world."
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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
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"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
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"Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals."
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"Christmas makes everything twice as sad."
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"Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation."
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"Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years."
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"I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer."
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"Christianity is part of the common law."
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"Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular."
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"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."
Friendship
"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."
Literature
"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."
Religion
"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
Acting
"The art of pleasing consists in being pleased."
Art
"The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough."
Friendship
"No young man ever thinks he shall die."
Man
"Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul."
Soul
"Grace in women has more effect than beauty."
Beauty
"A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions."
Imagination
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