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James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Saint Bernard

Knowledge that terminates in curiosity and speculation is inferior to that which is useful, and of all useful knowledge that is the most so which consists in a due care and just notion of ourselves.

Nothing can work me damage except myself.

Slander is a poison which extinguishes charity, both in the slanderer and the person who listens to it.

The tears of penitents are the wine of angels.