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"I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five."
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"This is a sane wholesome practical working faith: That it is a man's business to do the will of God second that God himself takes on the care of that man and third that therefore that man ought never to be afraid of anything."
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