"There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister."

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Source : c.1800 Debate on theAct of Union between Great Britain and Ireland, IrishHouse of Commons, quotedin SirJonahBarrington Personal Sketches and Recollections of his ownTimes (1827).

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“Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive.”
“No study is possible on the battlefield.”

Source : Ferdinand Foch (1920). “The Principles of War”
“I really spend as long as I can sketching everything out and working on the structure before I sit down to type out scenes.”
“Our shipment of mowers was lost at sea and while we waited, winter descended and covered our green lawns with snow. That taught me a key lesson, the importance of timing. The shipping company lost the lawnmowers! By the time they showed up no one wanted them, as you can't cut grass when it's covered with snow.”
“Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place.”
“Never shall I forget those naked, clean-swept little Canadian towns, one just like the other. Before I was twelve years old, I must have lived in fifty of them.”
“I love vintage shopping, I think it's really fun. And I love the feeling of finding the most amazing piece for less.”
“The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for contemporary verse ... There has never before, in the world's history, been an epoch which has tolerated and even welcomed such a flood of verse as has been poured forth over Great Britain during the last three years.”

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