"The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery."

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Source : Maria MONK (1836). “Awful Disclosures ... of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal. Revised with an appendix, etc”, p.87

Maria Monk

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“I did a dozen superhero pinups. I signed them "Kirby/Royer" because it was Kirby's drawing. I didn't think I was committing some sort of sin.”
“There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.”

Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.78, Vintage
“Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.”

Source : Isaac Watts (1806). “Logic, Or The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth: With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as Well as in the Sciences”, p.174
“A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the way you feel your life.”
“Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly as it was going to take place, his predictions would sound so absurd that people everyone would laugh him to scorn. The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic. So, if what I say now seems to you to be very reasonable, then I will have failed completely. Only if what I tell you appears absolutely unbelievable have we any chance of visualizing the future as it really will happen,”
“Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.”
“The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact, the driving forces behind all other learning.”

Source : Eric Jensen (2001). “Arts with the Brain in Mind”, p.2, ASCD
“A printer publishes a lie: for which he ought to stand in the pillory, for the people believe in and act upon it”

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