Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a w... - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results."

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