Some of the stone used to be made into grindstones and scythestones, and aged carpenters and farmmen tell how kindly it was to their tools and scythe blades; it left the edges smooth as silk, which synthetic stone (carborundum) never quite does.

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It may be that precisely due to its weak nature, an authoritarian dictatorship needs rampant violence and lies to maintain its rule.

Could we have seen [Macbeth's] crimes darkening on their progress […] could this gradatory apostasy have been shown us.