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— Sydney Smith"How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service.""
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The perpetrators of the Inquisition - the torturers, informers, and those who commanded their actions - were ecclesiastics of one rank or another. They were men of God - popes, bishops, friars, and priests.
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