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— Elizabeth Goudge"I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair."
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Whenever the clergy succeeded in conquering political power in any country, the result has been disastrous to the interests of religion and inimical to the progress of humanity.
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To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.
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