• Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

  Lucretius
  Roman poet and philosopher c.95-55 BC
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. executioner
2. scourge
3. absent
4. guilty
5. scorch
6. blows

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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. by : Lucretius

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