"The average businessman began to be agnostic, not……" — Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out."
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