"there is less alms-giving in America than in any other Christian country on the face of the globe. It is not in the temper of the people either to give or to receive."

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Source : Frances Trollope (2015). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.89, Sheba Blake Publishing

Frances Trollope

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“I can't prove to you that there is a God, I just know. All this suffering has to have a reason.”

Source : Laura Hillman (2005). “I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor”, p.141, Simon and Schuster
“I'm used to coming up with a lot of parts. And I don't have to do that so much [with Divine Fits]. This is the kind of band I've always wanted to be in because we never set up any aesthetic rules when we started it. We just wrote and edited, and it ended up sounding like Divine Fits.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live more than one life, walk more than one path. Reading, of course, can do the same.”
“With drooping bells of clearest blue Thou didst attract my childish view, Almost resembling The azure butterflies that flew Where on the heath thy blossoms grew So lightly trembling.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 353), 1922.
“One of the things I firmly believe about seemingly risky decisions is that you can't fully imagine how things can be better while you're in the thing you don't quite like.”
“I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.”
“Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.”
“Though you treat me badly, I love you madly.”

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