John Smith Phelps

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    Now John wore clothing of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
    Bible: New Testament, Matthew 3:4.

    Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
    —Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

    A literary woman’s best critic is her husband ...
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)