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These gentlemen, perhaps, do not believe a great deal in the miracles of piety; but it cannot be questioned, that they have an undoubting faith in the prodigies of sacrilege.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke comments on the faith of certain gentlemen in sacrilege despite their skepticism towards piety.
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