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Christianity is intensely practical. She has no trait more striking than her common sense.

— Charles Buxton Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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Nothing gives life a finer touch of grace, than the presence in the family circle of a lovely girl of seventeen.

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

Notes of Thought (1883)

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Notes of Thought (1883)

Women see through and through each other; and often we most admire her whom they most scorn.

Notes of Thought (1883)

The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

Notes of Thought (1883)

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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan (1923)

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence, from Jerusalem, of a lunatic asylum.

Havelock Ellis

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].

Thomas Jefferson Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764)

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