• For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.

  Thomas Hobbes
  British philosopher 1588-1679
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1. mysteries
2. wholesome
3. swallowed
4. without
5. chewed
6. effect

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For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect. by : Thomas Hobbes

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