Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Saint. A dead sinner revised and edited. - Ambrose Bierce

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

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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. – Ambrose Bierce

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Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that — the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart. – Baroness Emmuska Orczy

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

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