"The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch."

-- Roger L'Estrange

#Evil Quotes #Helping Quotes #Servant Quotes

“To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.”

Source : Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Fire and Hemlock”, p.254, Penguin
“The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.”
“He moves smoothly and slowly, carrying his concentration like a brimming cup.”
“I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.”
“My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about”
“Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things that mar or bless the sum of human happiness.”
“Everything that we eat today has been improved through some sort of breeding process. Anytime you do this, you introduce not only the genes that you know, but some that are not characterized.”
“The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.”

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