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Letter "M" » Mary
«I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.»
«It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart»
Author: Marjorie Holmes
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clings, customs, every year, Mary, Mary I, pondered, pondering, ponders, spaces
«Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella-no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.»
«If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.»
Author: Margaret Atwood
(Writer)
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Catholicism, convert, Mary, saints, The Virgin, the Virgin Mary, Virgin, Virgin Mary
«It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.»
«Mary's mouth costs her nothing, for she never opens it but at others expense»
«MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.»
«Mary, I believed thee true, And I was blest in thus believing; But now I mourn that ever I knew A girl so fair and so deceiving.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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blest, deceiving, Mary, Mary I, mourn
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