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A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders.

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Was it through his grandfather or his grandmother that he claimed his descent from a monkey?

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Shabby, word-eating, pocket-picketing, sacrilegious villains.

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If I were a cassowary
On the plains of Timbuctoo,
I would eat a missionary,
Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.

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Is it on your grandmother's or grandfather's side that you are descended from an ape?

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My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
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Samuel Wilberforce

Samuel Wilberforce
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Born: September 7, 1805
Died: July 19, 1873 (aged 67)
Bio: Samuel Wilberforce was an English bishop in the Church of England, third son of William Wilberforce. Known as "Soapy Sam", Wilberforce was one of the greatest public speakers of his day.
Known for:
  1. Heroes of Hebrew History (1870)

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