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William Rounseville Alger (1822-1905) was a Unitarian minister and author whose writings were important to the development of comparative religious studies. His works included The Poetry of the East (1856) and A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life (1860).
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- Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings,
But the immensest empire is too narrow for two kings.- Oriental Poetry, Elbow Room; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 682.
- When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.
- In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 544:20.
