Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby. (Isaac Leib Peretz)

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

Isaac Leib Peretz

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