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Quote by George Santayana
It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. – George Santayana

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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. – George Santayana

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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace. – George Santayana

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Saint. A dead sinner revised and edited. – Ambrose Bierce

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Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. – George Orwell

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Saintliness is also a temptation. – Jean Anouilh

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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement — in a word, with more renunciation than you care for — and so you flee the contagion. – Victor Hugo

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