“Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment; but in its time and place it is quite as proper as prayer.”

— Samuel I. Prime

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 12.

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American clergyman, traveler, and writer 1812–1885

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