Quote by Laurence Housman
Suicide is possible, but not probable hanging, I trust, is even mo

Suicide is possible, but not probable hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment. – Laurence Housman

Other quotes by Laurence Housman

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. – Laurence Housman

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Religion
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My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative. – Laurence Housman

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Failure
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It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion – death brought them into harmony. – Laurence Housman

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With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure. – Art Spiegelman

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Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation. – John Witherspoon

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Young people these days dont trust anything at all. They want to be free. – Haruki Murakami

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If you dont trust someone to look after your investments, then they shouldnt be doing the job for you. – Murray Walker

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Truth is a good dog but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. – Francis Bacon

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Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time. – Publilius Syrus

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