| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 62992 |
| QUOTATION: | The minister’s wife looked out of the window at that moment, and seeing a man who was not sure that the Pope was Antichrist, emptied over his head a pot full of..., which shows to what lengths ladies are driven by religious zeal. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778), French historian, playwright. Candide, ch. 3, p. 27, trans. by John Butt, Penguin Classics (1947). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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