Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
JONATHAN SWIFT
JONATHAN SWIFT
Jonathan Swift on age
Jonathan Swift91 quotes“Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.”
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