“Fear that makes faith may break faith; and a fool Is but in folly stable.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
Queen Mary Stuart as portrayed in Bothwell. Act I. Sc. 3.
Bothwell : A Tragedy (1874)
“I took Sin on faith, but if faith were money, fools would be billionaires.”
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