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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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Woodworkers are knotty. – Author unknown

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The best carpenters make the fewest chips. – English proverb, c.1500s

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For a craftsman like my father, nothing is more exasperating than to witness tool abuse. In particular, I remember a steel tape measure he gave me after I had somehow managed to lose the first twelve inches of it. – Richard Menzies, “If I Were A Carpenter,” RDMenzies.com, 2011

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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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