“Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.”

— Elbert Hubbard

The Philistine http://books.google.com/books?id=Y4lHAAAAYAAJ&q="Piety+is+the+tin-foil+of+pretense"&pg=RA1-PA115#v=onepage (September 1908).

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“A chilly piety leaked into the air.”

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