Quotes by anodyne

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  Virginia Woolf
  English writer 1882-1941

  

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  Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
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  James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819-1891

  

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  There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.