“Moreover, there is this harm too, and one of vast extent, and touching men generally, that by insincerity and lying faith and truth are lost, which are the firmest bonds of human society, and, when they are lost, supreme confusion follows in life, so that men seem in nothing to differ from devils.”

Apologia Pro Vita Sua [A defense of one's own life] (1864)

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English cleric and cardinal 1801–1890

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