Eggcorn?: gnashing? > mashing

[Wilson Gray]

>From a letter to the editor of the NYT.com WRT to the revival of
indulgences as a practice of The One True Faith:

"[M]ashing your teeth will not help [you scam your way into heaven]."

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain

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