Knicks and dull edges are ...

Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.
Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.
 Horace Kephart

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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The man with the knapsack is never lost. No matter whither he may stray, his food and shelter are right with him, and home is wherever he may choose to stop.
 Horace Kephart
It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy.
 Horace Kephart