Grain Quote by Mary Ellen Chase

“Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.” quote by Mary Ellen Chase — Download Open image

“Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.”

Mary Ellen Chase

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Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.

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Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.

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