“A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.”

George Bernard Shaw (1909)

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English mystery novelist and Christian apologist 1874–1936

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Source: Utopia (1516), Ch. 9 : Of the Religions of the Utopians
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