There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.
The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.
Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on earth, must have a body as well as a soul. A religion purely spiritual might suit a being as pure, but men are compound animals; and the body too often lords it over the mind.
Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills the boa is formidable chiefly from its insignificance, which is incompressible by the folds of its antagonist.
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