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"Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation."
Daniel Defoe / The True-Born Englishman. Part i. Line 1.

The True-Born Englishman. Part i. Line 1.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who."
Daniel Defoe / The True-Born Englishman. Part i. Line 1.

The True-Born Englishman. Part i. Line 1.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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