"I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards."

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A man may commit sin and yet be ignorant of it, and fancy himself innocent when he is guilty... We shall do well to remember that when we make our own miserably imperfect knowledge and consciousness the measure of our sinfulness, we are on very dangerous ground.

— J. C. Ryle