Quotes
Treat a child like a witch and you’ll have one.
p. 152
At such moments the voice of reason always sounds like blasphemy and dissenters are of the devil.
p. 102
It’s bad business meddling with the devil; it makes you superstitious.
p. 18
Being ignored was a therapy that had rarely been tried upon these girls.
p. 223
If such were the will of God, what wonder that so many had turned to the devil?
p. 248
A fact will often show poor and plain in contrast to the leapings of imagination.
p. 205
People at large were not enjoying an intellectual awakening where so recently they had succumbed to superstitious panic.
p. 221
As every minister knows, a prayer is a superb device for airing an opinion.
p. 72
Silence may have an eloquence of its own, but only in the long run.
p. 215
Technicalities are, however, of more interest to historians than to contemporaries.
p. 268
Yes, he had been loyal to his friends, but even a wolf is loyal to other wolves.
p. 262
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