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

Article (1859-05), “The Professor at the Breakfast-Table,” Atlantic Monthly
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Collected in The Professor at the Breakfast-Table, ch. 5 (1859).