Famous quotes containing the word capital:
“We make needless ado about capital punishment,taking lives, when there is no life to take.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.”
—Thomas Carlyle (17951881)
“If little faults, proceeding on distemper,
Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye
When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested,
Appear before us?”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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