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“Shopkeepers the great landed and commercial interestsregularly sat and slept, and where the two publicans occupied pews, but seldom made even the pretence of worshipping.”
“This work of making trade righteous, of Christianizing trade, looks like the very hardest the Gospel has ever had to take in handin England at any rate.”
“The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who sought salvation through commerce.”
“While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is the best.”
“Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.”
“I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.”
“Since chess was such a painful test of intellect, it affected his emotions too much to be sport.”
“Shakespeare might have said, we are "consumed with that with which we are nourished by.”
“We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”
“Shopkeepers —the great landed and commercial interests—regularly sat and slept, and where the two publicans occupied pews, but seldom made even the pretence of worshipping.”
