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The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
Clergyman
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Plainfield
New Jersey
Suffered
Temples
Outside
Within
Truth
Much
Termites
Never
Woodpeckers
Temple

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