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Herbert Beerbohm Tree Quotes: God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.
         

God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.


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