"We put things in order — God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is."
— Iron

January 1, 1970

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Horace Mann, as quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern (1908) ed., Tryon Edwards; and in The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations (1998) ed., Connie Robertson.