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"Talk of the devil, and his horns appear."
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"I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun."
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"What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind."
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"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
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"Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject."
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"It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to."
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"Why should the Devil have all the good tunes?"
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"The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing."
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"The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck."
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"The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still."
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"Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself."
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"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order."
Poetry
"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."
Being
"What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul."
Soul
"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain."
Imagination
"Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind."
Advice
"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."
Happiness
"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."
Future
"The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father."
Love
"If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?"
Soul
"The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman."
Marriage
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