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Quote by Francis Pharcellus Church

“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.”

Quote by Francis Pharcellus Church

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Francis Pharcellus Church

Francis Pharcellus Church was an American writer and editor, best known for his famous Christmas poem 'Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus,' published in The New York Sun. more

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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. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.”