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It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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I'm a very vicious critic of myself. ↗

— Dave Matthews

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Pressed into service means pressed out of shape. ↗

— Robert Frost

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I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, and I used to dress them up in Victorian clothes and take them out for the day and pretend they were mine. ↗

— Sadie Frost

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If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government? ↗

— David Frum

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The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies. ↗

— David Frum

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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth. ↗

— Stephen Fry

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