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«I've got a 15-year old son and a 10-year old daughter, and if they were going to do one of the following things: be an alcoholic; be a drug offender; beat their wife or husband; or gamble. I hope they would gamble.»
«AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
amnesty, expensive, offenders, punish, The State
«How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?»
«Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender»
«Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.»
«For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: / That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.»
«MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.»
«HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beelte, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus and microbe. _House of Correction_, a place of reward for political and personal service, and for the detention of offenders and appropriations. _House of God_, a building with a steeple and a mortgage on it. _House-dog_, a pestilent beast kept on domestic premises to insult persons passing by and appal the hardy visitor. _House-maid_, a youngerly person of the opposing sex employed to be variously disagreeable and ingeniously unclean in the station in which it has pleased God to place her.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
appal, appropriation, appropriations, bacilli, bacillus, cockroach, Cockroaches, detention, disagreeable, disagreeable person, domestic, edifices, erected, flea, habitation, Hardy, hollow, house of detention, ingeniously, microbe, microbes, mortgage, mosquito, Mosquitoes, offenders, pestilent, service station, steeple, steeples, The Station, unclean, variously
«If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender»
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