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William James

"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 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."

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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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"The devil's name is dullness."

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"Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil."

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"Anything new is always considered the devil's tool."

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"Theology is the logic of the Devil."

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"He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil."

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