“Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain?”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 215.
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