If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.
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The gallows were used to punish criminals, for instance the pharoahs would chop off people's heads and impale their bodies on poles for birds to eat and the Bible says that one of the reasons Jesus came was so that would not happen anymore because he lifted some sort of curse.
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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.
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When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.
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I say that Roger Casement Did what he had to do, He died upon the gallows But that is nothing new.
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I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.
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The conflict between the men who make and the men who report the news is as old as time. News may be true, but it is not truth, and reporters and officials seldom see it the same way. In the old days, the reporters or couriers of bad news were often put to the gallows; now they are given the Pulitzer Prize, but the conflict goes on.
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Close to the academy in this town they have erected a sort of gallows for the pupils to practice on. I thought that they might as well hang at...
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Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.
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