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“Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck”
Eli Wallach quotes (American Actor, b.1915)

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“If I were a grave-digger or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment”
Douglas Jerrold quotes (English Humorist, Playwright and Journalist, 1803-1857)

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“His achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room.”
Jonathan Larsen quotes
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“REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction. Among the Anglo-Saxon a subject conceiving himself wronged by the king was permitted, on proving his injury, to beat a brazen image of the royal offender with a switch that was afterward applied to his own naked back. The latter rite was performed by the public hangman, and it assured moderation in the plaintiff's choice of a switch.”
Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914) Book: Devil's Dictionary quotes

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“If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.”
Luther Burbank quotes
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“A hangman is a good trade, he doth his work by daylight”
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“Every guilty person is his own hangman.”
Seneca quotes (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)

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“If lying were a capital crime, the hangman would work overtime”
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“HANGMAN, n. An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and utmost gravity, and held in hereditary disesteem by a populace having a criminal ancestry. In some of the American States his functions are now performed by an electrician, as in New Jersey, where executions by electricity have recently been ordered --the first instance known to this lexicographer of anybody questioning the expediency of hanging Jerseymen.”
Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914) Book: Devil's Dictionary quotes

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“LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp." --Calcraft the Hangman.”
Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914) Book: Devil's Dictionary quotes

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