To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing. ✨ George MacD…

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To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing. ✨ George MacDonald (2015). The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more, p.4223, e-artnow
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Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing. ✨ George MacDonald (2015). Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated), p.5966, Delphi Classics
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