Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner tha…

Virginia Woolf
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Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker’s. ✨ Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). Orlando: A Biography, p.102, Oxford University Press, USA
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