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It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace. - Pierre C

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace. – Pierre Corneille

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To die for ones country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death. – Pierre Corneille

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Pierre Corneille
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven. – Henry Fielding

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One should not lift the rod against our enemies upon the private information of another. – Hitopadesa

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Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum. – Miguel de Cervantes

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