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Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.

— Francis Pharcellus Church Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus (1897)

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Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus (1897)

The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see.

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Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!

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No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus (1897)

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds.

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