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People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled — secure from violent passions or temptations to evil — those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints. – Eva Le Gallienne

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

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Born a saint, die a sinner — born a sinner, die a saint. – Doug Horton

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

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