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Drawn from what Voltaire said
religion Faith as a thing a society runs on, and what has been tried in its place.
It is indubitable that in a civilized town, it is infinitely more useful to have a religion, even a bad one, than to have none at all.
Where this was said
↗Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary (English selection, H. I. Woolf translation, 1924)gutenberg.org
All 20 korrents from this piecethis one is 1st
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I hold this tooShared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.