"There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable,……" — Ambrose Bierce

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• There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. — Ambrose Bierce
• Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy,… — Ambrose Bierce
• Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game… — A. P. Herbert
• The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people,… — Milton Friedman
• So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time… — Lyndon B. Johnson
• There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable,… — Ban Ki-moon
• Faults of ignorance are excusable only where the ignorance itself is so — Sacha Guitry
• Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations… — H. L. Mencken
• People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely… — A. P. Herbert
• In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless… — Napoleon Bonaparte
• A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. — Robert Fripp

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