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You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.

Billy Sunday

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Billy Sunday
Age: 72 †
Born: 1862
Born: November 19
Died: 1935
Died: November 6
Baseball Player
Evangelist
Ames
Iowa
William Ashley Sunday
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Dams
Wells
Reformation
Might
Sweeping
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Falls
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Wave
Land
Toothpicks
Stop
Niagara

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