• Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

  James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819-1891
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1. mishaps
2. knives
3. either
4. handle
5. grasp
6. blade

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