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No person with a pen ever changed anything. No, I know what you’re thinking. Declarations of independence are useless without the ideas behind them and the ideas they foment and […]
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Adiaphorous
My mother was devout. That there was a God and his heaven, and that God was in his heaven and all was right with the world, were precepts irrefragable. Was […]
Acock
The devil had come to Patrick twice on the Lord’s day. The third Sunday he arrived a little past noon in the farmyard, buckles on his shoes shining, white gold, […]
Abstemious
Reverend Placid was a credit to his profession. Seldom, since the establishment of his back-country Delaware parish, had there been a man of the Book so gentle, and so kind. […]
Abridge
My grandfather was one of those almost extinct class of hucksters that didn’t trouble themselves with the nutritional values of snake oil. It may not have been ethical to sell […]
