My birth certificate read Dorothy May Kinnicutt, but, lest you think that the name Sister has any ecclesiastical significance, let me hasten to point out that it was immediately hung on me by my three-year-old brother, Frankie.
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In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.
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We are sorry to announce that Mr Albert Brown has been quite unwell, owing to his recent death, and is taking a short holiday to recover.
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Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.
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It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister.
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Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.
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It is a great new day for the parish of Acadia to begin addressing these concerns, ... We're not all angels, and they (inmates) need to be treated properly.
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A vicar was preparing to leave his parish. In order to avoid a particular parishioner being sad, he said 'Don't worry, you'll probably get a better man.' 'Not necessarily,' replied the parishioner, 'that's what the last one said before he left.'
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(Of Jesus): 'A parish demogogue.'
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