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Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.

Carl Sandburg

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Carl Sandburg
Age: 89 †
Born: 1878
Born: January 6
Died: 1967
Died: July 22
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To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.
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I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.
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