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"Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I agree with Mr. Pitt Taylor that, in many of the cases, justice and common sense have been sacrificed,8 but not, as it appears to me, at the shrine of mercy rather at the shrine of guilt, because I regard a wrongful acquittal as unmerciful to the prisoner, whose real interests are sacrificed by his escape, as well as to society.


— Erie, J., Reg. v. Baldry (1852), 5 Cox, C. C. 531.

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He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him, but he that forgets the Saviour is unmerciful to himself.


— John Bunyan, p. 341. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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