"Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was fraternal love."

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Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand; 'Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch...' On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly.

— Jane Austen