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Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low,

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies by it for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may.

J. G. Holland
Country, Dirty, Indulge In

The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.

J. G. Holland
Country, Home, Men
J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.205

I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.

J. G. Holland
Country, Hypocrisy, Charity
J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.59

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