Harris

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    The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the moral duties of Christians in cities, leads as naturally to the outvent of what Methodists call “revivals” as did the backslidings of the people in those days.
    —Corra May Harris (1869–1935)

    A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
    —Sydney J. Harris (b. 1917)

    People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
    —Sydney J. Harris (b. 1917)