Many would like religion as a sort of lightning rod to their houses, to ward off, by and by, the bolts of divine wrath.
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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an axe And affairs that had not grit in them how long would they take to make a man.
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A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.
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All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
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