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My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

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Tryon Edwards
Age: 84 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 7
Died: 1894
Died: January 4
Theologian
Hartford
Connecticut
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Preventives of evil are far better than remedies cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.
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To possess money is very well it may be a valuable servant to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.
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He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
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