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Funny how, in an article about a violent religious conflict (which liberals describe as the quintessence of religion), only one of the religions is named.— Latest Articles
Be sure an iron cross quickly hung over the iron heart that conceived and developed this filthy arm; for does it not offer the essence--quintessence of all "frightfulness?"— Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers
Let other people go through the toil to acquire; their aim is truth: but here is beauty in its quintessence, and what is beauty but three parts of truth?— Miss Bretherton

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