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This scholar, rake, Christian, dupe, gamester, and poet.

— David Garrick

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Their cause I plead,—plead it in heart and mind;
A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

Let others hail the rising sun:
I bow to that whose course is run.

Heart of oak are our ships,
Heart of oak are our men;
We always are ready.

Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks.

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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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