"If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old."
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"At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him."
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"The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn."
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"Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile."
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"If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans."
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"I sold my soul to the devil in L.A"
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"Practice like the Devil."
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"When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready."
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"I remember confuting one of Westminster's favourite maxims, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't". In the annals of popular wisdom, this is one of the most cretinous sayings I have come across."
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"You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody."
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"The devil considers all misplaced trust as devil worship, for he hides himself in its shadows."
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"Witch-hunts are always spooked by women's horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil."
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"Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil"
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"The devil is a gentleman."
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"What, can the devil speak true?"
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"Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this."
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"Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature."
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"Poetry is the Devil's wine."
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"I have always said the first Whig was the Devil."
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"Indolence is the devil's cushion."
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