Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. – Charles Lamb, 1821

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The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. – H.U. Westermayer

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice. – Meister Eckhart

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. – William Jennings Bryan

Thanksgiving is possible only for those who take time to remember; no one can give thanks who has a short memory. – Author Unknown

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