Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings.
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A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.
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