“Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.”

— William Morley Punshon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 501.

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English Nonconformist minister 1824–1881

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