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Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if the worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat.

— Ronald Knox God and the Atom (1945)

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Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.

The Hidden Stream (1952)

Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.

There once was a man who said: "God
Must think it exceedingly odd
If he finds that this tree
Continues to be
When there's no one about in the Quad."

When suave politeness, temp'ring bigot zeal
Corrected I believe to One does feel.

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