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They regarded me as an impudent upstart—since I had come to Kentucky from Tennessee—as little better than a carpet-bagger; and had done their uttermost to put me down and drive me out.
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Watterson recounts how he was perceived as an outsider and faced opposition upon moving to Kentucky.
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But my face in the glass I’ll serenely survey, And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow— That this worn-out old stuff which is thread-bare to-day Shall become everlasting to-morrow.
Too many churches—or, shall I say, church fabrics—breeding controversy where there should be agreement, each sect and subdivision fighting phantoms of its fancy.
Religion’s the only game whar you can’t lose.
In short he was an opportunist void of conviction and indifferent to consistency.
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