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date: 11 October 2024

Lord Shaftesbury 1621–83
English statesman 

  1. ‘Men of sense are really but of one religion.’…‘Pray, my lord, what religion is that which men of sense agree in?’ ‘Madam,’ says the earl immediately, ‘men of sense never tell it.’
    Bishop Gilbert Burnet History of My Own Time (1724) vol. 1; see Disraeli