The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly …

Mark Twain
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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations, p.401, Courier Corporation
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The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. ✨ Mark Twain (2012). Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations, p.401, Courier Corporation

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