A Dictionary of Burning Words

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Profanity: Quotations from Burning Words

Nothing is a greater sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulance of an idle tongue. The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low, that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.— GEORGE WASHINGTON
One cause of atheism is, a custom of scoffing in holy matters, which doth by little and little deface the reverence of religion.— FRANCIS BACON
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