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Libel Quote by Jean Giono

“The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.” quote by Jean Giono — Download Open image

“The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.”

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When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of Canaan to…

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I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.

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Spring sprang suddenly onto the land.

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Remember, all of man's happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.

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From the time we began to build houses and cities, since we invented the wheel, we have not advanced one step toward happiness. We…

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“Slander does to a soul what cancer does to a cell.”

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Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

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I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land.…

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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed,…

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It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel capital of…

Richard Dawkins

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And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents,…

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“Love is boss when everything you hear about a person is filtered through their enemies, yet you still choose to love them.”

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There isn't any way to libel the human race.

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I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about…

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I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on…

Walter Cronkite

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Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion…

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