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Apr. 5th, 2012 06:05 pm
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My wife, Grace, and I choose to tell our five kids that the Easter Bunny, while fun, isn’t a real, magical bunny that hops from house to house laying colored eggs, candies, and toys on Easter morning. That’s a make-believe story, and we have no objections to fun and imagination so long as the kids also know that the Resurrection of Jesus is a historical fact and not a fanciful myth.

-- Mark Driscoll, "What We Tell our Kids about the Easter Bunny", Washington Post, 4/3/2012
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"There is a certain type of girl, for example," said the Surveyor-General, dilating with a sense of his usefulness, "with a perfect passion for severe studies -- when they are not too difficult, you know."

-- H.G. Wells, The Sleeper Awakes (1911), p134

The women, in comparison with those Graham remembered, were as a class distinctly plain and flat-chested. Two hundred years of emancipation from the moral restraints of Puritanical religion, two hundred years of city life, had done their work in eliminating the strain of feminine beauty and vigour from the [workers].

-- H.G. Wells, The Sleeper Awakes (1911), p193


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