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«Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.»
«There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Murder
| Keywords:
excusable, felonious, homicide, homicides, justifiable, kinds, praiseworthy
«HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another --the classification is for advantage of the lawyers.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
advantage, classification, classifications, excusable, fell, felonious, homicide, homicides, justifiable, kinds, lawyers, praiseworthy, slain, slaying
«A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
dissension, dock, docked, docks, gamble, homicide, homicides, International, noose, nooses, promoted, Reasonable man, stake, surer, willfully
«A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
aggravate, aggravated, aggravates, aggravating, ensue, ensued, ensues, ensuing, homicide, homicides, in return, jury, justifiable, justify, pun, punning, Puns, The Jury, The Verdict, verdict, verdicts
«Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide -that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life -are alike forbidden.»
«Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
armed, arms, assailant, assaulted, assaults, attacked, carrying, commit, confidence man, crimes, determined, disarm, disarmed, disarming, disarms, encourage, forbid, homicide, homicides, inclined, inclines, inclining, Laws, prevent, serve, unarmed
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