It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.George MacDonald
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