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- We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey, and let it keep one shape, till custom make it their perch and not their terror.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, Act II, sc. 1
- Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Comedy of Errors, Act IV, sc. 1
- How comes it, that thou art then estranged from thyself?
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Comedy of Errors, Act II, sc. 2
- I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Comedy of Errors, Act II, sc. 2
- It is the very error of the moon: She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, and makes men mad.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act V, sc. 2
- Every why hath a wherefore.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Comedy of Errors, Act II, sc. 2
- Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Comedy of Errors, Act III, sc. 2
- Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Comedy of Errors, Act III, sc. 2
- Delay is preferable to error.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to George Washington, May 16, 1792
- No man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965), On Senator Joseph McCarthy, See It Now, March 7, 1954
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