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title: "3 Religion Dead Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/a-priest-once-quoted-to-me-the-roman-saying-that-a-religion-is-dead/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pearl-s-buck/it-may-be-that-religion-is-dead-and-if-it-is-we-had-better-know-it/)

[Pearl S. Buck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pearl-s-buck/)

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> [A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/a-woman-mixed-of-such-fine-elements-that-were-all-virtue-and-religion/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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