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Madame de Staël thought it was pride in man to endevour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all."

— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

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Often misquoted as "I desire no other evidence of the truth of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer".

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