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Re: FOOD FIGHT Lets beat each other up , Politics is fun.

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alexjrgreen wrote:
An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper [1st Earl of Shaftesbury] (1621–1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion." To the inquiry of "What religion?" the Earl said, "Men of sense never tell it."

Footnote by Arthur Onslow, Speaker of the House of Commons (1691-1768), published in the 1833 edition of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury (1643-1715): History of my own Times, vol. I, bk. I, sec. 96 (p. 175).
Quoted by Benjamin Disraeli in Endymion - Chapter LXXXI and Rudyard Kipling in Egypt of the Magicians - Dead Kings.



Thanks! Accuracy is always prefereable.


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FOOD FIGHT Lets beat each other up , Politics is fun.

Post by alexjrgreen »

"Quand il s’agit d’argent, tout le monde est de la même religion."

"When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion."


Letter to Mme. d'Épinay, Ferney, 26th December 1760
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet 1694-1778)

Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire: Correspondance (Garnier Frères, Paris, 1881), vol. IX, letter # 4390 (p. 124)
Ars artis est celare artem.

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