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Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.

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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
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Backsliding
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Collapse
Comfort
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