“He knew that once you bested anybody like Mr. Scratch in fair fight, his power on you was gone. And he could see that Mr. Scratch knew it too.”

— Stephen Vincent Benét, book The Devil and Daniel Webster

The Devil and Daniel Webster (1937)

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poet, short story writer, novelist 1898–1943

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