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A quotation from Twain

I could have given my own sect the preference and made everybody a Presbyterian without any trouble, but that would have been to affront a law of human nature: spiritual wants and instincts are as various in the human family as are physical appetites, complexions, and features, and a man is only at his best, morally, when he is equipped with the religious garment whose color and shape and size most nicely accommodate themselves to the spiritual complexion, angularities, and stature of the individual who wears it.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 10 “Beginnings of Civilization”

More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/85582/

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Best part of the article: Senator Natale L. Urso, bill sponsor, says "'Every adherent of a religious group must expect to make certain sacrifices, to endure certain hardships, if he is to cling steadfastly to his religious precepts. But this state should not put its stamp of approval either through tax exemption or through scholarship grants upon those who violate the spirit of religious tolerance upon which this state was founded." #religiousTolerance #religiousDiversity #RI #rhodeIsland #brown