“All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
On the subject of ghosts, March 31, 1778, p. 373
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
“That maxim, it’s not an argument against atheism—it’s an argument against foxholes.”
— James K. Morrow, book Towing Jehovah
Source: Towing Jehovah (1994), Chapter 8, “Famine” (p. 213)
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