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Laura Ingalls Wilder
“For dinner they ate the stewed pumpkin with their bread. They made it into pretty shapes on their plates. It was a beautiful color, and smoothed and molded so prettily with their knives. Ma never allowed them to play with their food at table; they must always eat nicely everything that was set before them, leaving nothing on their plates. But she did let them make the rich, brown, stewed pumpkin into pretty shapes before they ate it.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods

G.K. Chesterton
“If you consulted your business experience instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of the commonest signs of a rotter. Actors who can't act believe in themselves; and debtors who won't pay. It would be much truer to say that a man will certainly fail, because he believes in himself. Complete self-confidence is not merely a sin; complete self-confidence is a weakness.”
G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“Each American generation neglects to pass on its experience to the next...our talent is for living in the present: that elation is beguiling during spells of relative calm, but each new crisis sends us reeling - because it seems unprecedented, and because what's past has become suspect.”
Nora Sayre, Running Time: Films of the Cold War

Loraine Boettner
“We cannot conceive of God bringing into existence a universe without a plan which would extend to all that would be done in that universe. As the Scriptures teach that God's providential control extends to all events, even the most minute, they thereby teach that His plan is equally comprehensive. It is one of His perfections that He has the best possible plan, and that He conducts the course of history to its appointed end. And to admit that He has a plan which He carries out is to admit Predestination.”
Loraine Boettner, The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination

Alan Bradley
“It has been my experience that facetiousness in the mouth of someone old enough to know better is often no more than camouflage for something far, far worse.”
Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

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