“There is no proselyter half so energetic as the hard-shelled atheist.”
"A New Preface to an Old Story", Broun's Nutmeg, August 19, 1939
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2000s
“It is hard to hate what one has loved,
And a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.”
On a peine à haïr ce qu'on a bien aimé,
Et le feu mal éteint est bientôt rallumé.
Sertorius, act I, scene iii.
Sertorius (1662)