"The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt."

Comfort, Doubt, Job

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"The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt."

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"I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you."

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"With the help of the Lord, you can handle life's challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What comfort your fainting heart has, knowing that in those stumbling times of discouragement and despair, of depletion and seeming defeat, the Shepherd will find you...restore and "fix" you...and follow you...until you are well on your way."

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"Books were safer than other people anyway."

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