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Famous quotes containing the words saint and/or vincent:

“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 (1802–1885)

“We were very tired, we were very merry—
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)