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There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. – H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956

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There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty. – William Lecky

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I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed. – Matthew Henry

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