"Even when there is no law, there is conscience."

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“It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.”

“No tears are shed, when an enemy dies.”

“The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.”

“God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.”

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“It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.”

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