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از دیالوگ های کتابِ دوست داشتنیِ "سیاه زیبا"  

"All very well for you religious chaps to talk so," said Larry; "but I"ll turn a shilling when I can. I don"t believe in religion, for I don"t see that your religious people are any better than the rest ."

"If they are not better," put in Jerry, "it is because they are not religious. You might as well say that our country"s laws are not good because some people break them. If a man gives way to his temper, and speaks evil of his neighbor, and does not pay his debts, he is not religious, I don"t care how much he goes to church. If some men are shams and humbugs, that does not make religion untrue. Real religion is the best and truest thing in the world, and the only thing that can make a man really happy or make the world we live in any better."

(Chapter 36, page 156)

*نوشته ی آنا سیویل، رمانی درباره زندگی مردمِ انگلیس در قرن 19.