“If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless. How different would yours have been, had the chance of birth placed you in Tartary or India!”

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley

Article 25
"Declaration of Rights" http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/PShelley/declarat.html (1812)

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English Romantic poet 1792–1822

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