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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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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh. – Henry Fielding

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Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. – Ellen Key

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

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Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. – Edward F. Halifax

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Then spare the rod and spoil the child. – Samuel Butler

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People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird. – Donald Knuth

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