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Pope: "What matter the body, if the soul be lost! What we do here, we do to save their souls! (Giggle!!!)" Executioners: "Whee!!! I LOVE MY JOB!!!" Pope: "Your enthusiasm is laudable, but one drop of heretic blood on my robes and it will be YOU that be saved by torture!"
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"Who at the present day can imagine the courage, the devotion to principle, the intellectual and moral grandeur it once required to be an infidel, to brave the church, her racks, her fagots, her dungeons, her tongues of fire --- to defy and scorn her heaven and her hell --- her devil and her God?"
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