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  • Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

    - Oliver Goldsmith
      The Vicar of  Wakefield, ch.13.

  • I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First you take their faces from 'em by calling 'em the masses and then you accuse 'em of not having any faces.

    -J(ohn) B(oynton) Priestley
    Saturn Over theWater, ch.2.

  •    J'accuse. I accuse.

    - EŁ  mile Zola
      Title of open letter to the President of France regarding the Dreyfus case.

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