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Twelve "good men and true", will, after mature deliberation, consign a
man to the gallows. Twelve women, good and true, will, without any
deliberation, send a woman to death by their venomous tongues.

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There are a few people who would change their individuality for that of
another. We might be willing to exchange positions, to exchange all that
is apparent to the eyes of the world, but our inner consciousness, our
memories, our thoughts, feelings and desires; all that is part and
parcel of ourselves, we hold sacred.

Some minds are so small that a favour weighs heavily upon them.

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At times one is inclined to believe that even the gods are guilty of
favouritism.

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Some people's lives are like a flower, the more they are crushed, the
sweeter the perfume they exhale.

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There are some people who look so rigidly virtuous and repellant that it