One must as willingly be nothing, as something. - Amy Carmichael

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He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip of wood - against a fifty-foot-high, scaly, spike-ridden, fire-breathing dragon.

Amy Carmichael

One must as willingly be nothing, as something.

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