"Take care what you are about, for unless you base all this on religion, you are only making so many clever devils."
— Religion

January 1, 1970

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Philip Henry, Fifth Earl Stanhope, Notes of Conversation with the Duke of Wellington, 1831-1851 (1886). Talking about non-denominational education, often paraphrased as "Educate men without religion, and you make them but clever devils".