"His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings."

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"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."

"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."

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"With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets."

"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

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"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."

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"The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled."

"People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm."

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"Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things."

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