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John Philpot Curran

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    Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.

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    But as in wailing there's nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before we go.

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    Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

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    His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

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    I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.

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    It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.

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    My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.

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    The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.