"Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you!"
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"The Devil craps on the big pile"
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"Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones."
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"You scholars, you're in communication with the devil."
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"One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word."
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"You don't believe in God, Rachel. You don't believe in goodness or love or mercy, do you?" "I haven't seen enough to form an opinion." "But you believe in the devil?" "When I'm sitting in a car with him, yes," she said."
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"I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather."
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"Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it."
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"The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five."
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"People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon."
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"Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil."
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"O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!"
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"Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy: sayest thou that house is dark?"
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"The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it."
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"They were devils incarnate."
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"If there be devils, would I were a devil, To live and burn in everlasting fire, So I might have your company in hell, But to torment you with my bitter tongue!"
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"A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost."
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"Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest."
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"I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak."
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"You leave out God, and you substitute the devil."
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