“Let me have none of your Popish stuff! Get away with you, good morning.”

— Thomas Paine

Last words (June 1809), as quoted in The Fortnightly https://books.google.com/books?id=aCYzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA398&lpg=PA398&dq=%22Let+me+have+none+of+your+Popish+stuff%22&source=bl&ots=D0WFax-dxc&sig=Ai90qOuOHYdsoVtR1tIIP_pwgUM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiii9momsrLAhWlmoMKHVxUBS0Q6AEIJDAE#v=onepage&q=%22Let%20me%20have%20none%20of%20your%20Popish%20stuff%22&f=false, Volume 25; Volume 31, p. 398
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