"The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong"

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma. We need men like him today more than ever. His writing still inspires us and challenges the 'better angels' of our nature, when people open their hearts and minds to his simple, honest humanity. Thank goodness he was here.”
“I don't care how wonderful heaven is, I won't be content waiting thirty years for you.”

Source : Jason F. Wright (2007). “The Wednesday Letters: A Novel”
“Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.”
“Fashion is part of our culture, and it's about more than just a pretty dress.”
“Never say more than is necessary.”

Source : Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1833). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch”, p.12
“I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.”
“I remember the first sermon I ever preached. I had four sermons. I preached them, all four in ten minutes. And that was the beginning, in a place called Bostwick, Florida, in northern Florida, in a little tiny church, and on a cold night, about 40 people. And I was so nervous.”
“To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of.”

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