Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
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One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.Mary Antin
If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.
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The Gentiles used to wonder at us because we cared so much about religious things about food and Sabbath and teaching the children Hebrew.
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On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
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Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create our own world, if we choose.
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First, you had to have a tutor at home, who prepared you and talked all the time about the examination you would have to pass, till you were scared.
Mary Antin
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