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- From: abl@cybill.inesc.pt (Antonio Leal)
- Subject: Re: Quotations regardin The Devil
- In-Reply-To: chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu's message of 21 Dec 1992 20: 54:50 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 09:33:14 GMT
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- chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien) writes:
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- > Anybody have good proverbs/quotations regarding the devil?
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- My grandfather used to say:
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- "The devil knows a lot, not because he's the devil, but because he's old."
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- For sheer whimsicality, I like this one: when it rains lightly and
- the sun is shining at the same time, some people will say "The devil
- is beating his wife".
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