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Plea Quotes by Mark Twain
- Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock…
- We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.
- (Twain on Cain): it was his misfortune to live in a dark age that knew not the beneficent Insanity Plea.
More Plea Quotes
- The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite,… — William Blake
- No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves… — Rudyard Kipling
- Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration. — Abraham Lincoln
- My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child,… — Wilder Penfield
- We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by… — Paul Elmer More
- We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your… — Friedrich Nietzsche