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Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

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Taylor Caldwell
Age: 84 †
Born: 1900
Born: September 7
Died: 1985
Died: August 30
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Manchester
England
Marcus Holland
Max Reiner
Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell
Janet Miriam Reback
Mankind
Saviors
Adores
Murders
Adore
Savior
Murder

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I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me
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But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.
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People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
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We are not old unless we desire to be.
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An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.
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I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.
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Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.
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Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.
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. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.
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The world is a penal institution.
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I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.
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