"Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play."

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"I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane."

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"There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part."

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"There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples."

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"He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please."

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"We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor."