Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in …

Samuel Johnson
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Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, p.469
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