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• Ned: Homer, God didn't set your house on fire.
  Rev. Lovejoy: No, but He <was> working in the hearts of your friends and neighbors when they came to your aid, be they [points to Ned] Christian, [Krusty] Jew, or [Apu] ....
• Lovejoy: Your son has been working in a burlesque house.
  Helen: Principal Skinner saw him with his own eyes....
• Lisa is supposed to marry Hugh. The wedding gets cancelled and Rev.
  Lovejoy says, "... this is terrible. And this never would have happened if the wedding had been inside the church with God and not out here in the cheap showiness of nature"....
• You are deeply attached to your friends and acquaintances.
• ABSENT: Exposed to the attacks of friends and acquaintances; defamed; slandered.
• Destiny makes relatives; selection makes friends.