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Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.

— A. J. Cronin Misattributed

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A. J. Cronin very probably did not say this. Wikiquote lists it as misattributed.

Source: Chinese proverb, as quoted in The Chinese Empire (1855), by M. Huc,Vol. II, p. 199; also in "M. Huc's Travels in China" in Living Age (1855), p, 668
Source quality: Secondhand citation Quoted from another book or article rather than from the original.

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Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley.
But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us.

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