The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (434 page)

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Thurlow, Edward, Lord
1731–1806

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Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.
usually quoted as "Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked?"

John Poynder
Literary Extracts
(1844) vol. 1.

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Tichborne, Chidiock
c.
1558–86

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My prime of youth is but a frost of cares;
My feast of joy is but a dish of pain;
My crop of corn is but a field of tares;
And all my good is but vain hope of gain.
The day is past, and yet I saw no sun;
And now I live, and now my life is done.

"Elegy" (composed in the Tower of London prior to his execution)

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Tickell, Thomas
1686–1740

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There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high
The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.

"To the Earl of Warwick. On the Death of Mr Addison" (1721) l. 76

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Tiger, Lionel
1937–

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Male bonding.

Men in Groups
(1969)

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