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collection of moral precepts a necessary discipline
“Monsieur l’abbé, it is useless for you to speak: you are an enlightened priest; you see in religion a collection of moral precepts, a necessary discipline, and not a set of antiquated dogmas, of mysteries whose absurdity is only too little mysterious.”
— from The Elm-tree on the Mall by Anatole France

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