Quotes with precedents

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  • Mary McCarthy The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 225
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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