All words are pegs to hang ideas on. — Henry Ward Beecher

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All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

Henry Ward Beecher

1887

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Beecher, Henry Ward. "The Human Mind." Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. D. Appleton and Company, 1887.

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