QuoteQuest“..Now there is in the South of Belgium, in Hainault, in the neighborhood of Mons.. ..a district called the Borinage, that has a peculiar population of laborers who work in the numerous coal mines.. .I should very much like to go there as an evangelist.. ..St. Paul was three years in Arabia before he began to preach..”
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- Wikiquote: Vincent van Gogh
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In his letter to brother Theo, from Laeken, near Brussels, 15 Nov. 1878, (letter 126); as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935], p. 18
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Gogh, Vincent van. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Vincent van Gogh. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh
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