“My own mind is my own church.”
Source: The Age of Reason
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Thomas Paine262
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Je ne dis les autres, sinon pour d'autant plus me dire.
Book I, Ch. 26
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Variant: I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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p, 125
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