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It was especially entertaining watching the durability demonstration of one of his axes busting a chain wrapped around a pine tree. (The demo wasn't staged for an audience which made it even more entertaining.) The chain was a worthy opponent and nobody from around here gives a crap about pine trees so it was fun to watch the exertions. The ax eventually won with no discernible marks (let alone damage) Nice product! I certainly won't be using my Gransfors Bruk to duplicate the feat.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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