No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. (Fisher Ames)

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

Fisher Ames

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