Religion was the pole-star for my father. Rude and uncultivated as he otherwise was, it made him and kept him "in all points a man." (Thomas Carlyle)

Religion was the pole-star for my father. Rude and uncultivated as he otherwise was, it made him and kept him "in all points a man."

Thomas Carlyle

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