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“If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7bef15a6808406a3a2b3732badb18be53da40962286db58f70e839b05357ca69
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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