"The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and uns...
If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.
~ Mark Twain ~
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If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.
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