Quotes with consoles

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• Religion, virtually without fail, provides the army at war with its blessings, and recruits from among its officials the chaplain, who in military costume counsels and consoles and stiffens the morale of men at war.

  Source: The Power Elite (1956)

  ― C. Wright Mills
  American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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• The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

  ― Elizabeth Hardwick
  American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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• The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

  ― Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• illumination
• blessings
• officials
• distracts
• knowledge
• counsels

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