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"As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns."
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"Children can see the beatitudes in nature."
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"If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them."
"One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue."
"The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school."
"We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful."
"On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles."
"You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses."
"Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth."
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