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"Pride the first peer and president of hell."
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"Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance."

"Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination."

"How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them."

"After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world."

"The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness."
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"The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear."

"It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions."

"All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have."

"Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes."
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