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In Praise of Folly

Book by Desiderius Erasmus · 4 quotes · Ifs, Blindness, Bounds

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“Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they blacken the darkness, and promote the delusion: wisely foreseeing that the people (like cows, which never give down their milk so well as when they are gently stroked), would part with less if they knew more.”