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Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
Jeremy Bentham
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Jeremy Bentham
Died: 1832
Died: June 6
Human Rights Activist
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Political Scientist
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Gamaliel Smith
Philip Beauchamp
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Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.
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The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.
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The word independence is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word dependence is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.
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Without publicity, no good is permanent under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.
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Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.
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Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.
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Every law is an infraction of liberty.
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Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.
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Right... is the child of law.
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An absolute and unlimited right over any object of property would be the right to commit nearly every crime.If Ihad sucha right over thestick Iamaboutto cut, I might employ it as a mace to knock down the passengers, or I might convert it into a sceptre as an emblem of royalty, or into an idol to offend the national religion.
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The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.
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[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
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The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
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The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.
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There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.
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In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.
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