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

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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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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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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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For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust ones friends. – Aeschylus

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I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust. – Christopher Gadsden

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Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody. – John Churton Collins

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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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