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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.

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

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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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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)

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