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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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"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."

"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."

"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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"What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!"

"These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done."

"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

"'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories."

"The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals."
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