William Graham Sumner Quotes | Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vi...

"Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty."

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No matter how often I tell people I'm thirty-nine some of them refuse to believe I'm that old.

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I come from the Lynchs of Sligo. You know, I went there, but I looked in the phone book and there are nine million Lynches in Sligo.

— Jack Nicholson

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