Comments on: it is not a slight thing http://www.bernhard.us/rob/blog/2008/11/07/it-is-not-a-slight-thing/ a man, no plan, a blog, golbanalponnama. Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:58:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Rob Bernhard http://www.bernhard.us/rob/blog/2008/11/07/it-is-not-a-slight-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-54209 Rob Bernhard Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:24:16 +0000 http://www.bernhard.us/rob/blog/?p=360#comment-54209 Yes, an extra comma was able to sneak in there. Thanks for the correction. Yes, an extra comma was able to sneak in there. Thanks for the correction.

]]> By: julie http://www.bernhard.us/rob/blog/2008/11/07/it-is-not-a-slight-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-54208 julie Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:45:38 +0000 http://www.bernhard.us/rob/blog/?p=360#comment-54208 I saw this page when researching this quote for a friend: The quote is slightly different, it's "I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us." Looks like it is from Dickens's novel The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), and he has the narrator say it after talking to a little kid. Here is the page from Google Books if you want to read it in context: http://books.google.com/books?id=dggYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA4&dq=%22so+fresh+from+god%22&ei=F2hoSvKSOJmSywTH94ChBA I saw this page when researching this quote for a friend:

The quote is slightly different, it’s “I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.”

Looks like it is from Dickens’s novel The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), and he has the narrator say it after talking to a little kid.

Here is the page from Google Books if you want to read it in context:
http://books.google.com/books?id=dggYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA4&dq=%22so+fresh+from+god%22&ei=F2hoSvKSOJmSywTH94ChBA

]]> By: rob http://www.bernhard.us/rob/blog/2008/11/07/it-is-not-a-slight-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-53908 rob Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:53:10 +0000 http://www.bernhard.us/rob/blog/?p=360#comment-53908 I do not remember where I read this. This entry has been sitting in my "drafts" folder for this blog for a long while. I think I was going to use it as a lead-in to a post about Nate but decided it should just be published as is already. :) I do not remember where I read this. This entry has been sitting in my “drafts” folder for this blog for a long while. I think I was going to use it as a lead-in to a post about Nate but decided it should just be published as is already. :)

]]> By: Heather http://www.bernhard.us/rob/blog/2008/11/07/it-is-not-a-slight-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-53907 Heather Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:30:54 +0000 http://www.bernhard.us/rob/blog/?p=360#comment-53907 I have heard that quote before, and I love it! Where did you find it? I have heard that quote before, and I love it! Where did you find it?

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