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As a Christian, as an individual, as a doctor, I am absolutely opposed to the death penalty.
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
The Reverend Samuel Peters ... exaggerated the Blue Laws, but they did include "Capital Lawes" providing a death penalty for any c ...
Or don't you know, so exceedingly clever as you are, that a vain tongue must pay the penalty?
All I have to do
is hear his name
...
The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of ...
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fa ...
Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph... ...
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