"Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets."
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"Saint Luke was a Saint and a Physitian, yet is dead."
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"Such a Saint, such an offering."
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"Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul."
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"Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing. [Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.]"
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"There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet."
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"The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman."
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"The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts."
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"Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most."
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"Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God."
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"Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints."
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"All the drawings and sketches and clothes of Yves Saint Laurent in the '70s were so colorful, so bright."
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"Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine."
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"And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship."
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"Preacher's kids are often the ones that are least informed by the work that their parents are doing because it has something to do with the proximity and the intimacy as opposed to the saints and the congregation."
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"All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel."
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"Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her."
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"Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer."
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"Saints can spring from any soil."
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"Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints."
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