"Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect." — Pierre Corneille

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• They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of… — Aleister Crowley
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• During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of… — Jean de la Bruyere
• In Southern California along the coast, if the only thing you can do with the land is agriculture, it would… — Bill Vaughan
• True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were… — Thomas Ligotti
• Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't… — Leo Tolstoy
• The Commissioner was correct to ban Mr. Sterling from all official NBA business, to levy the stiffest allowable fine, and… — Jerry Reinsdorf

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