Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
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One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.Beilby Porteus
In sober state, Through the sequestered vale of rural life, The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.
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One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.
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Teach him how to live, And, oh still harder lesson how to die.
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He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.
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