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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:3098
AUTHOR:Daniel Defoe (1660?–1731)
QUOTATION:Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there; 1
And ’t will be found, upon examination,
The latter has the largest congregation.
ATTRIBUTION:The True-Born Englishman. Part i. Line 1.
 
Note 1.
See Burton, Quotation 80. [back]
 

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