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"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
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"Isn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire?"

"Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth."

"Just vengeance does not call for punishment."

"But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment."

"Routine physical punishment such as spanking teaches a toddler that might makes right and that it is fine to hit when one is stronger and can get away with it."

"If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way."

"Murderer ain't fit to eternity."

"The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective."

"Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces."

"The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment."
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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

"People see a Macbeth film. They imagine they have seen Macbeth, and don't want to see it again; so when your Mr. Hackett or somebody comes round to act the play, he finds the house empty. That is what has happened to dozens of good plays whose authors have allowed them to be filmed. It shall not happen to mine if I can help it."

"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."

"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."
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