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To: Edwarda who wrote (1799)	1/24/1999 1:01:00 PM
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Oh, you're so strict! He didn't say, after all, "I require 10% of a tithe." And couldn't "I require a tithe of 10% of your income," while redundant, be considered sort of polite, in that it doesn't leave the majority of hearers (I'm sure a majority doesn't know a tithe is, by definition, 10%) in confusion as to exactly how much you will be demanding of them. I could even go so far as to say that "of your income" could be rationalized the same way-- maybe some think a tithe is some undetermined fraction of some undetermined portion of your income-- say of your capital gains, or the income you derive from collecting rents, or gambling! See how defiant I am? I've now taken an even more extreme position on this matter!

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