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Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than r

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it. – George Washington

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. – George Washington

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Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. – George Washington

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There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. – Frederick William Robertson

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The merciful shall obtain mercy. – Bible

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It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity. – Lyman Abbott

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Offenders never pardon. – Proverb

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Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth. – Arabic Proverb

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The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers. – John Taylor

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The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art. – Kenneth Tynan

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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. – Virginia Woolf

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