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Letter "V" » verdict
«At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.»
«The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life»
«..fiery yearnings their own phantom-futures make, and deem it present. So, after all these fearful, fainting trances, the verdict be, the golden haven was not gained - - yet, in bold quest thereof, better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.»
Author: Herman Melville
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Novelist,
Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
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The Verdict,
trances,
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yearnings
«This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.»
«The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.»
«Sentence first, verdict afterwards.»
«A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Humorist,
Physician,
Poet,
Professor,
Writer)
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Keywords:
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pun,
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Puns,
The Jury,
The Verdict,
verdict,
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«There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.»