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• Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to…
• The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any…
• I wish we could all have good luck, all the time! I wish we had wings! I wish rain water was beer!
• When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route…
• Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.
• Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.
• It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
• Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation.
• When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.
• Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.
• Thomas More: ...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws…
• I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.

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