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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