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Grace King
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“Patience! Patience! Patience is the invention of dullards and sluggards. In a well-regulated world there should be no need of such a thing as patience.”
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“The history of one is the history of all.”
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“... the heart and the almanac never agree about time ...”
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“Every heart has a miracle to pray for. Every life holds that which only a miracle can cure. To prove that there have never been, that there can never be, miracles does not alter the matter. So long as there is something hoped for, — that does not come in the legitimate channel of possible events, — just so long will the miracle be prayed for.”
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“... as innocent as waking babies playing with their toes.”
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“... so long and so slow had been her descent into poverty that a grandmother was needed to remember her setting out upon the road to it.”
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“... they were women of the world, and so dreaded an embarrassment more than they did sin ...”
Grace King, U.S. writer, historian
(1852 - 1932)
Full name: Grace Elizabeth King.