If I had received good instruction as a child I would be with my family today and at peace with my neighbors. I hope and pray that all you parents in the sound of my voice will train up your children in the way they should go.

Charles Portis
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  1. I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces? Some preachers will say, well, that is superstitious "claptrap." My answer is this: Preacher, go to your Bible and read Luke 8: 26-33

  2. I confess [Election] is a hard doctrine, running contrary to our earthly ideas of fair play, but I can see no way around it. Read I Corinthians 6:13 and II Timothy 1:9, 10. Also I Peter 1:2, 19, 20 and Romans 11:7. There you have...

  3. You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.

  4. Idleness and solitude led to these dramatics: an ordinary turd indulging himself as the chief of sinners.

  5. I am ready. I have repented my sins and soon I will be in heaven with Christ my savior. Now I must die like a man.

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