The first thing I ask is that people should not make use of my name, and should not call themselves Lutherans but Christians. What is Luther? The teaching is not mine. Nor was I crucified for anyone...How did I, poor stinking bag of maggots that I am, come to the point where people call the children of Christ by my evil name?

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The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation.

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We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

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Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.

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The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them. – Nipsey Hussle

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All grown-ups were once children but only few of them remember it.

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When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done. - Stephen King

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Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.

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Folks, I don't trust children. They're here to replace us.

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Children should neither be seen nor heard from – ever again. ― W. C. Fields

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