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Charles de Lint

"Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?"

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"Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?"

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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."

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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."

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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."

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"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."

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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

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"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."

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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."

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