"I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few and the example to many."

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Source : Eaton's Case, 22 How. St. Tr. 820-21, 1793.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

#Punishment Quotes #Justice Quotes #Perfection Quotes

“My second ex-wife was really kind of like a ship passing in the night. Only she turned out to be the Exxon Valdez.”
“You have only so many bottles in your life, never drink a bad one.”
“Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.”
“Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.”
“If we can learn to deal with our discomfort and just relax into it we'll have a better life.”
“Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.”
“Maybe thatâ€™s what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten, I am looking for someone who will hold on to me and not let go.”
“I have a very big family and a lot of friends, and buying presents is one of my favorite things to do.”

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