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> [The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mellon/the-proposition-that-we-should-encourage-wickedness-and-violence-by/)

Thomas Mellon

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## More by Thomas Mellon

> [The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mellon/the-proposition-that-we-should-encourage-wickedness-and-violence-by/)

Thomas Mellon

> [It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mellon/it-may-seem-a-hard-task-to-condemn-fellow-creatures-to-long-years-of/)

Thomas Mellon

> [Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mellon/violence-and-irrationality-were-so-long-and-thoroughly-cultivated/)

Thomas Mellon

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