"Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by..." - Quote by H L Mencken
Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.
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“Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.”
“The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.”
“If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.”
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“If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.”
“The wealthiest person on earth is the one who appreciates”
“Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.”