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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check t

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty. – John Bunyan

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When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom. – Italian Proverb

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

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