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“The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light,--although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.”
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- Book
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- 2026-07-04
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- 4799e922222b7ebf5b5ed65d63a2f8948b58c47f3ff8e5b4fe7fd200057df875
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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