“Thank God for my good dinner. Thank Father and Mother. Amen' was the grace used in one family, and it certainly had the merit of giving credit where credit was due.”

—  Flora Thompson, book Lark Rise

Source: Lark Rise, ch. 1, Poor People's Houses

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English author and poet 1876–1947

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