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“Hannah was praying silently; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard; therefore Eli thought she was drunk.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 1:13.
“Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)