You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlema…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). Specimens of the table talk, p.91
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