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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, read more
Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Something lingering with boiling oil in it . . . something
humorous but lingering--with either boiling oil or melted read more
Something lingering with boiling oil in it . . . something
humorous but lingering--with either boiling oil or melted lead.
Send them into everlasting Coventry.
Send them into everlasting Coventry.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him
chasteneth him betimes.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him
chasteneth him betimes.
'Tis I that call, remember Milo's end,
Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
'Tis I that call, remember Milo's end,
Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time--
To let the punishment fit the crime.
My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time--
To let the punishment fit the crime.
Frieth in his own grease.
Frieth in his own grease.
