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If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandize, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book.
— Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique portatif ("A Philosophical Dictionary") (1764), Books, Section 1.
His religion at best is an anxious wish, like that of Rabelais , a great Perhaps.
thomas carlyle— Burns; compare: "The grand perhaps", Browning, Bishop Bloughram's Apology.
