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• The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

  Brendan Behan

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• Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

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• Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

  Edmund Burke

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• It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

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• I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

  Wilfrid Sheed

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• It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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• It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

  Victor Hugo

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