Every hero becomes a bore at last. Perhaps Voltaire was not bad-hearted, yet he said of the good Jesus, even, "I pray you, let me never hear that man's name again." Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Published: 07 August, 2001
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Author: Robert D. Putnam
But now, the more ardently I loved those whose wholesome affections I heard reported -- that they had given themselves up wholly to thee to be cured -- the more did I abhor myself when compared with them. For many of Saint Augustine