A mocking word cuts worse than a scythe, and the wound is harder to heal. A blow is much sooner forgotten than a jeer. Waste is of Satan, not of God. Some men are blinded by their worldly business, and could not sets heaven itself if the windows were open over their heads. If ever you live to want what you once wasted, it will fill you with woe enough to last you to your grave. If you want to be secure never stand as security for any living man, woman, child, youth, maiden, cousin, brother, uncle,
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