“In the Catholic Church, especially, they go into chancery, make a clean confession, give up all, and think to start again. Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.”

— Henry David Thoreau , book Life Without Principle

Life Without Principle (1863)

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