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Joseph Smith

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There has been a great difficulty in getting anything into the heads of this generation. It has been like splitting hemlock knots with a corn-dodger for a wedge and a pumpkin for a beetle.
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Discourses of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 146

 
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