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If you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch

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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
Cradle
Drive
Devil
Instead
World
Crutch
Crutches

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