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  • Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.But his delight is in the law of the L; and in his law doth he meditate dayand night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in hisseason; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodlyare not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDPsalms1:1^4.

  •    Editor: a person employed bya newspaper, whose business it isto separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. Hubbard

    - Elbert Green Hubbard
      The Roycroft Dictionary. 1871  Address at Framingham, Massachusetts,31 Aug. Collected in Poems and Essays (1874).

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