"Religions change; beer and wine remain."
"Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void"
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Source: Hervey Allen (1968). “Toward the Flame: A War Diary”, [Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburgh Press
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