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«Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.»
Author: Daniel Webster (Orator, Senator, Statesman) | About: Justice | Keywords: civilized, sir
«Sir, I say that justice is truth in action»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli (Novelist, Prime Minister) | About: Justice | Keywords: sir
«Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, 'What will you have, sir?' And I said, 'A glass of hemlock.'»
«Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like; it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability»
«N-nothing important. That is, I heard a good deal about a ring, and a dark lord, and something about the end of the world, but please, Mr. Gandalf, sir, don't hurt me. Don't turn me into anything... unnatural.»
«I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.»
«No profit grows where no pleasure is taken; In brief, sir, study what you most affect»
«O, sir! you are old;Nature in you stands on the very vergeOf her confine.»
«Poet How goes the world? Painter It wears, sir, as it grows»
«O sir to willful men - The injuries that they themselves procure, Must be their schoolmasters»

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