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A knotty piece of timber must have smooth wedges. - English prover

A knotty piece of timber must have smooth wedges. – English proverb quoted by John Ray, 1670

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Put your soul into your work, not your hand… – State Safety News, September 1916, published by the University of Arizona Bureau

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The feel and beauty of finely crafted wood – the refreshing smell of your workshop – the absorbing joy of cutting and joining that makes the hours race by – These are the reasons you love woodworking. – Jack Neff, Make Your Woodworking Pay for Itself, 1996

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The civil law cannot provide but by common measures… all their rules are made by as common a measure as they can, and they are the best rules that have the fewest exceptions: the best Carpenters make the fewest chips: but some there must be. – Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or The Rule of Conscience, 1659

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