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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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Gamaliel Smith
Philip Beauchamp
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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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Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
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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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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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There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.
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As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.
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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
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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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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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The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
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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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I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!
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Pleasure is in itself a good nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.
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The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.
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Without publicity, no good is permanent under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.
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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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The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
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To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?
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Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.
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