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If i were personally to define religion, i would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circustance.
-Theodore Dreiser
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If I Were Personally To Define Religion,

Theodore Dreiser
If i were personally to define religion, i would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circustance.
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