“Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.”

— A. J. Cronin

Chinese proverb, as quoted in The Chinese Empire (1855), by M. Huc,Vol. II, p. 199; also in "M. Huc's Travels in China" in Living Age (1855), p, 668
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Scottish novelist and physician 1896–1981

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