"My lords, we are vertebrate animals, we are mammalia! My learned friend's manner would be intolerable in Almighty God to a black beetle."

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“An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.”

“As the crow flies"—a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.”

“After a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant.”

“Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on.”

“You silly old fool, you don't even know the alphabet of your own silly old business.”

“If a man go into the London Docks sober without means of getting drunk, and comes out of one of the cellars very drunk wherein are a million gallons of wine, I think that would be reasonable evidence that he had stolen some of the wine in that cellar, though you could not prove that any wine was stolen, or any wine was missed.”

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"Were we all like the Sawhorse, we would all be Sawhorses, which would be too many of the kind. Were we all like Hank, we would be a herd of mules; if like Toto, we would be a pack of dogs; should we a…"

— L. Frank Baum

Literature1856–1919

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"I will tell you: It's three agencies of government, when I get there, that are gone: Commerce, Education and the — what's the third one there? Let's see. — OK. So Commerce, Education and the — The thi…"

— Rick Perry

Politics1950

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"My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prolonged stays in various Continental states—France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, …"

— Andrew Dickson White

Politics1832–1918

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"We have no pressing inducement to take part in your public meetings; nor is there anything more entirely foreign to us than affairs of state. We acknowledge one all-embracing commonwealth—the world."

— Tertullian

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