I do not, in my private capacity, believe that a baby gets his best physical food by sucking his thumb; nor that a man gets his best moral food by sucking his soul, and denying its dependence on God or other good things. I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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[https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryofen0000ches/page/58/mode/2up A Short History of England] (1917), p. 59