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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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The degree in which a poets imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. – George Santayana

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

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Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God. – Evelyn Waugh

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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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The true saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moments. – Abu Said

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