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• Poetry is the devil's wine. -- Saint Augustine (354-430) -- Confessions (397-398)
• Necessity has no law. -- Saint Augustine (354-430) -- Soliloquium Animae ad Deum
• It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me.
  What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit!...
• Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline.
  -- Saint Augustine (354-430), Confessions (397-398)...
• If you really want to do something new, the good won't help you with it.
  Let me have men about me that are arrant knaves. The wicked, who have something on their conscience, are obliging, quick to hear threats, because they know how it's done, and for booty....
• Necessity has no law. -- St. Augustine
• The Last Law: If several things that could have gone wrong have not gone wrong, it would have been ultimately beneficial for them to have gone wrong.
• If several things that could have gone wrong have not gone wrong, it would have been ultimately beneficial for them to have gone wrong.
  -- The Last Law...
• I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
  -- New York City detective...