Quotes by George Dennison Prentice

"We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intoler"

"Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true."

"Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else."

"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease."

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