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They that seldom take pleasure seldom give pleasure.
Fulke Greville (1554–1628) 1st Baron Brooke; Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman
Maxims, Characters, and Reflections (1756)
Added on 24-Apr-15 | Last updated 24-Apr-15
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Topics: dour, entertainment, harsh, joy, joyless, pleasure, prude, Puritan, stern, stoic, stuffy, workaholic
More quotes by Greville, Fulke To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.
Publilius Syrus (d. 42 BC) Assyrian slave, writer, philosopher [less correctly Publius Syrus]
Sententiae [Moral Sayings], # 113 [tr. Lyman (1862)]
Added on 17-Mar-15 | Last updated 15-Feb-17
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Topics: guilty, harsh, innocence, innocent, justice, law, mercy, penal, punishment
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