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The impurity of ignorance is in none so manifest as in the devout;…
Quote byCoventry Patmore · 1823–1896
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895), Knowledge and Science XVI, p. 70..
English (original)
The impurity of ignorance is in none so manifest as in the devout; for they act on their ignorance, and fill themselves and others with miserable scruples and hard thoughts of God, and are as apt to call good evil as other men are to call evil good.
— Coventry Patmore
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