Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not …

Blaise Pascal
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Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it. ✨ Blaise Pascal (2013). Pascal's Pensees, p.162, Simon and Schuster
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