Famous quotes containing the words small, claim and/or courts:
“Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.”
—Luc, Marquis de Vauvenargues (17151747)
“O God, oh! of thine only worthy blood,
And my tears, make a heavenly Lethean flood,
And drown in it my sins black memory.
That thou remember them, some claim as debt;
I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.”
—John Donne (15721631)
“The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.”
—Franz Grillparzer (17911872)
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