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Letter "C" » crime
«Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
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Diplomat,
Statesman,
Wit)
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Keywords:
be intimate,
careful,
conceal,
confess,
contempt,
crime,
crimes,
discovery,
Discovery of,
forgiven,
Friends Forever,
implied,
implies,
implying,
intimate,
intimates,
intimate with,
intimating,
pride,
remembers,
sillier,
silliest,
silly,
weakness,
weaknesses,
wrongs
«When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
calls,
crime,
distinction,
ferocity,
justice,
murder,
murdering,
sport,
sporting man,
The Sporting,
The Tiger,
tiger
«Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?»