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Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.
J. G. Holland
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In the homes of America are born the children of America and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.
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A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.
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God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.
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