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Christ: I dislike him very much; still I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.
Samuel Butler (1835–1902), British author. First published in 1912. Samuel Butler's Notebooks, p. 88, E.P. Dutton & Company (1951).
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