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William Butler Yeats Quotes: Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
         

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.


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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.



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