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“An atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange For Deity offended!”
Provenance
- Source:
- Epistle to a Young Friend.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d25e2c6e3a6635f66f83663354c6f7b34665c28371cad8a33b5a5480abdcd490
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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