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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about judgment

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

Quote by William Falconer about corruption, numbers, consequences, measure, moral

Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these...

Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion.

Quote by Jim Fowler

The worst chew-out from parents always comes from an...

The worst chew-out from parents always comes from an incident their child lied about.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about education, parents, children

For him, indeed, human life is, in the first instance, ...

For him, indeed, human life is, in the first instance, only an additional, and as it were incidental grace, upon this expressive landscape.

Quote by Walter Pater about opinion, grace, human imperfections, life

An isolated incident can always happen.

An isolated incident can always happen.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about opinion

In recent years before the intifada there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about criminals, law

Killer Queen She keeps her Moet et Chandon In her pretty cabinet "Let them eat cake", she says Just like Marie Antoinette A built-in remedy For Kruschev and Kennedy At anytime an invitation You can't decline Caviar and cigarettes...

Quote by Freddie Mercury about poetry, mind, perfume, cars, conversation, action, man

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