"I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier."
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"The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.“
-Howard Nemerov
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