I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.
Quentin CrispMuddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking.
Quentin CrispAbatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.
Quentin CrispThe court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.
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