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“Ah! well it is for us that God is a loving Father, who takes our very prayers and thanksgivings rather for what we mean than for what they are; just as parents smile on the trailing weeds that their ignorant little ones bring them for flowers.”

— Edward Garrett

Source: Three Thousand Selected Quotations from Brilliant Writers — Wikisource

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