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“Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 23:40.

One of the criminals crucified with Jesus , to the other.

“A sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plow instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)