“ Lying is a terrible vice: it testifies that one despises God, but fears men. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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“ The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction of the body. ”
- Roger Scruton- Copy
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“ We speak that we do know and testify to that which we have seen. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable, for literary babes who never tire of testifying their delight in the vapid compound by appropriate googoogling. The words are commonly Saxon — that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ X in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language. X is the sacred symbol of ten dollars, and in such words as Xmas, Xn, etc., stands for Christ, not, as is popular supposed, because it represents a cross, but because the corresponding letter in the Greek alphabet is the initial of his name — Xristos… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls? ”
- Nicolas Martin- Copy
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“ The principle feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things… ”
- Gandhi- Copy
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“ The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other. ”
- Mark Hopkins- Copy
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