The Whetstone River is a 12.7-mile-long (20.4 km) tributary of the Minnesota River in northeastern South Dakota and a very small portion of western Minnesota in the United States. Via the Minnesota River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
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“The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.”
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