Of a hundred people of each of the different leading religious sects, about the same proportion will be safe and pleasant persons to deal and to live with.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar

The Professor at the Breakfast-Table, ch. 5 (1860)
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The chapter originally appeared as "The Professor at the Breakfast-Table: What He Said, What He Heard, and What He Saw," Atlantic Monthly, (1859-05).