Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greed...y and ferocious pirates. They were all alike, they took everything they could carry, they burned, harried, violated, tortured, and killed until everything English was brought to the verge of ruin. Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Personal columnists ... are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat--no matter who ki...lled the meat for him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not respon...sible, and nothing is your fault.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »