Famous quotes containing the words legal, tender and/or act:
“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“Our interest’s on the dangerous edge of things.
The honest thief, the tender murderer,
The superstitious atheist.”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)
“However great a man’s fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear- headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance—so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival.”
—Graham Greene (1904–1991)
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