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> [“When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know it are not merely inferior to them in skill but lower in God's eyes; as the priests said, 'All that rabble…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/when-the-subject-is-sacred-proud-and-clever-men-may-come-to-think/)

[C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis-2/)

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> [I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-heller/i-could-not-write-about-a-subject-sacred-to-me-because-i-would-be-too/)

[Joseph Heller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-heller/)

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