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The purpose
and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate
the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of
Himself.
-- Peter Abelard
1079-1142, French
Philosopher, Priest
A woman spent
all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone.
If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box, then resumes
her place afterwards. No one calls her either, but from a
window in the street, someone watched her all day, no doubt
since they had nothing better to do. The Christmas syndrome.
-- Jean Baudrillard
French Postmodern
Philosopher, Writer
Midnight, and
the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves
birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to
let them all slink through.
-- Angela Carter
1940-1992, British Author
A lovely thing
about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a
thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
-- Garrison Keillor
1942-, American Humorous
Writer, Radio Performer
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Call a truce,
then, to our labors -- let us feast with friends and
neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if
''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow
after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
-- Rudyard Kipling
1865-1936, British Author of
Prose, Verse
There are some
people who want to throw their arms round you simply because
it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle
you simply because it is Christmas.
-- Robert Lynd
1892-1970, American Sociology
Author
Please to put
a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at
Christmas time!
-- Phyllis Mcginley
1905-1978, American Poet,
Author
This is the
month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's
eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our
great redemption from above did bring.
-- John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet
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