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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an en

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious. – Daisy Ashford

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