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People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

— Herbert Beerbohm Tree

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Source: "The Importance of Humour in Tragedy: Presidential Address Delivered at the Birmingham Midland Institute, 1915", Nothing Matters, and Other Stories (1917) p. 207.
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