A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting h…

Flannery O'Connor
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A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1988). The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, p.163, Macmillan
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