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«The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous decision.»
«Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, infamous, sullying, and grotesque is contained for me in this single word: God»
«The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
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«One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others»
«The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.»
Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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History
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«Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.»
«This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved»
«The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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confers, declaration, Declaration of, Declaration of Independence, denial, denial of, dogma, infamous, The Declaration of Independence
«There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.»
«The rights of human nature are deeply wounded by this infamous practice of slavery.»
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