"A number of girls of my acquaintance went……" — Maria Monk
"A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called."
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Maria Monk
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25 Quotes by Maria Monk
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All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they…
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We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but must remember,…
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I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility.
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So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw…
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I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we…
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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They…
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Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had…
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Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the…
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Some of the priests from the Seminary were in the nunnery every day and night, and often several at a…
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Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to…
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I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this…
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My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took…
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a…
— Richard Bach
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures,…
— HonorÈ De Balzac
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which…
— Martha Beck
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Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our…
— George Ade
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There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra…
— Jello Biafra
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.
— Charles Bronson
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Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing,…
— Donald Cargill
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