We are decent 99 percent of the time, when we could easily be vile.

We are decent 99 percent of the time, when we could easily be vile.

Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking
Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer:
Hast thou the knack? pamper read more

Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking
Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer:
Hast thou the knack? pamper it not with liking;
But if thou want it, buy it not too deare
Many affecting wit beyond their power,
Have got to be a deare fool for an houre.

For 'tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petar, and 't shall go hard
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For 'tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petar, and 't shall go hard
But I will delve one yard below their mines
And blow them at the moon.

The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.

The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.

No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.

No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.

A strong sense of injury often gives point to the expression of
our feelings.
[Lat., Plerumque dolor etiam read more

A strong sense of injury often gives point to the expression of
our feelings.
[Lat., Plerumque dolor etiam venustos facit.]

Abuse a man unjustly and you will make friends for him.

Abuse a man unjustly and you will make friends for him.

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would read more

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.