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Give Us This Day Our Daily Faith, But Deliver Us, Dear God, From Belief.
-Aldous Huxley
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Give Us This Day Our Daily Faith,
Aldous Huxley
Give Us This Day Our Daily Faith, But Deliver Us, Dear God, From Belief.
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