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Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we

Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company. – Jerome K. Jerome

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels. – Thomas Carlyle

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There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim. – St. Gregory The Great

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A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it from a phial, a tear which the sinner had shed in doing a good action, and his sins are washed out. – Alberic, Monk of Monte-Cassino

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I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking. – Jean Cocteau

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