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QUOTATION:God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
ATTRIBUTION:P.D. (Phyllis Dorothy) James (b. 1920), British mystery writer. Jonah the tramp, in Devices and Desires, ch. 40 (1989).

Quoting a wayside pulpit.
 
 
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