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“There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.”

Michel de Montaigne

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Everyone has done things wrong at some point, and if we were judged strictly by all our thoughts and actions, we would all be in serious trouble more than once.

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