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Thomas Hobbes Quotes: Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
         

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.


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