James Anthony Froude book The Nemesis of Faith
Preface, Second edition (21 June 1849)
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)
“What have I always believed?
That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.”
— Terry Pratchett, book Small Gods
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