In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit … - Leah Hager Cohen

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Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.

Leah Hager Cohen

In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all day long by scholars, merchants, travelers, community leaders, gossips, and poets.

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The ability to know one’s limitations, to recognize the bounds of one’s own comprehension—this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.

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Unfortunately, being physically equipped to hear has little to do with the actual predilection to listen. Sharing a common tongue does not ensure earnest or successful communication. Missed connections occur among hearing people all the time, splitting open countless minor chasms and yawning gulches, fissures that no vaccine or technilogical advance will ever be able to mend or prevent. That task will always fail to us.

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The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity.

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