“There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?”

—  William Morley Punshon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 139.

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English Nonconformist minister 1824–1881

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