A Quote by Moncure D. Conway

It is a much easier thing to unloose the demon war than to chain him up again.

Moncure D. Conway

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Again Chain Demon Easier Him Much Than Thing Up War

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Moncure D. Conway
American - Author
March 17, 1832 - November 5, 1907

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Robert Englund

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George Eliot

You have to remember that what we’re dealing with here are Sumerian gallu demons. The next to the lowest form of demon on the demon food chain. They’re simple demons really. Lowly. You know…morons. (Jaden)

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It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's been polluted.

Elizabeth Gilbert

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

W. Somerset Maugham

Put him in there and chain him up," he ordered curtly. "Yes, that chain, you fool - do you see any other chain in that cell? Peaceable Sherwood? I'm tired of hearing about Peaceable Sherwood! Turn him loose in the cell for the night. - Which one of you said 'Where'll he be by morning?' Where does he look like he's going to be by morning, I ask you - a hundred and fifty miles away?" I was, to be exact, only seven and a half miles away by morning.

Elizabeth Marie Pope

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Cassandra Clare

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Reid Hoffman

It's just much easier to wake up and be you and go to bed and do it over again.

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