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title: "2 Hands Raw Quotes by 2 authors"
description: "Browse 2 Hands Raw quotes by 2 authors. Discover the best Hands Raw sayings and thoughts."
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> [Learn to use an axe, and respect it and you can't help but love it. But abuse one and it will wear your hands raw and open your foot like an overcooked sausage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-proenneke/learn-to-use-an-axe-and-respect-it-and-you-can-t-help-but-love-it-but/)

[Richard Proenneke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-proenneke/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/166/richard-proenneke-45288_abuse_learn-to-use-an-axe-and-respect-it-and-y_572034.jpg)

> [“I will hold what I am inside, and keep my hands tight around all the things I have seen and heard, and felt. The poems composed as I washed and scythed and cooked until my hands were raw. The sagas…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-kent/i-will-hold-what-i-am-inside-and-keep-my-hands-tight-around-all-the/)

[Hannah Kent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-kent/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd9/hannah-kent-4646_choked_i-will-hold-what-i-am-inside-and-keep-my_689152.png)

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