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Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust.
(Piers Paul Read (b. 1941), British author. Daily Telegraph (London, Oct. 3, 1990).)
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And nobody would commit suicide, only
To find beyond death
Bridgeport, Ohio.
(James Wright (1927-1980), U.S. poet. In Response to a Rumor That the Oldest Whorehouse in Wheeling, West Virginia, Has Been Condemned (l. 22-24). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
(Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist. Trans. by William G. Allen. L'Homme qui rit (1869).)
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Thou shalt not sit
With statisticians nor commit
A social science.
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet. repr. In Selected Poems, ed. Edward Mendelson (1979). "Under Which Lyre," st. 27 (1946).)
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The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
(Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990), Swiss dramatist, novelist, essayist. Trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1995). Sentences for Contemporaries (1947-1948).)
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Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Compensation," Essays, First Series (1841).)
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Yes, having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
(Bill Cosby (20th century), U.S. comedian. Fatherhood, ch. 1 (1986).)
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Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
(Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).)
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The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
(Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95), British biologist and educator. Reflection #143, Aphorisms and Reflections, selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan (London, 1907).)
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What else may hap, to time I will commit.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Viola, in Twelfth Night, act 1, sc. 2, l. 60.
"Hap" means chance to happen.)
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