Quotes with scorch

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• Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

  ― George Eliot
  English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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• Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

  ― Lucretius
  Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• executioner
• caustic
• fingers
• quality
• dungeon
• scourge

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