“O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.”
Evelyn Waugh book Brideshead Revisited
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“If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.”
As quoted in The New York Times (3 November 1986)
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