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«It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.»
«Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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Beyond the Limits, first instance, futility, grasp, grasps, human mind, illusion, instance, limits, mad, The Second
«HANGMAN, n. An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and utmost gravity, and held in hereditary disesteem by a populace having a criminal ancestry. In some of the American States his functions are now performed by an electrician, as in New Jersey, where executions by electricity have recently been ordered --the first instance known to this lexicographer of anybody questioning the expediency of hanging Jerseymen.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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ancestry, disesteem, disesteemed, electrician, electricians, executions, first instance, hangman, hereditary, instance, law of gravity, officer, ordered, questioning
«Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.»
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