Quote by Henry Fielding
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven. - Hen

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven. – Henry Fielding

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on. – Henry Fielding

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He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him. – Henry Fielding

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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. – Henry Fielding

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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. – Michel Foucault

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

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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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No one provokes me with impunity. – Mary Queen Of Scots

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