#w

World Class players can lay down the toughest hands and play any two cards at any time without fear. Their reads are impeccable. ↗

— Chris Moneymaker

#cards #class #down #fear #hands

Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith. ↗

— Maria Monk

#bible #book #catholics #different #different times

I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed. ↗

— Maria Monk

#confession #constantly #detained #directed #enough

I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ↗

— Maria Monk

#any #awe #believed #dead #great

My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life. ↗

— Maria Monk

#before #both #canada #city #had

On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience. ↗

— Maria Monk

#confirmed #conscience #day #extremely #i

Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take, and be faithful to them. ↗

— Maria Monk

#course #did #duty #everything #faithful

So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children. ↗

— Maria Monk

#attempt #children #convent #far #i

The only recreation there allowed, however, is that of the mind, and of this there is but little. ↗

— Maria Monk

#however #little #mind #only #recreation

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#entrance #free #market #nothing #which