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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.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8455f4055ecb3d573e98dedd5033ec09d77c16c8f5618f6b501031af2ce39418
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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