"Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as little to do, in those who thus hold it, with the heart and the character as any other fashion."
"He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness."
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Source: Benjamin Robbins Curtis, George Ticknor Curtis (1879). “A Memoir of Benjamin Robbins Curtis, LL. D.: Professional and miscellaneous writings”, Boston : Little, Brown,
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