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Quote by Sydney Smith
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice a

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion! – Sydney Smith

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He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. – Sydney Smith

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Carpe Diem
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Sydney Smith
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The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts. – Sydney Smith

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Fasting
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Other Quotes from
Religion
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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Religion

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code – even though it was a great yawn – also showed peoples interest in religion. – Barbara Walters

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Religion

I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldnt make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy… I took every interesting course I could find for nine years. – Patrick Rothfuss

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Religion

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt. – Martin Scorsese

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Religion

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