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One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?

Source: Letter, 10 Sept. 1833, to John Stuart Mill (published in Letters of Thomas Carlyle, 1923), on the Unitarians, following a meeting with Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-- Thomas Carlyle, (Dec 4 1795-1881), Scottish essayist, historian; He was considered one of the era's great sages and man of letters; wrote The French Revolution, 1837.

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