The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
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Part I, Book IV, ch. 21.Miguel de Cervantes
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This is not lawful for some and unlawful for others, but what is lawful for all extends on continuously through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light.
Empedocles
The Lord being the author both of mirth and gravity, is it not lawful in itself for the truth to use either of these ways, when the circumstances do make it lawful?
Martin Marprelate
Fill the seats of justice
With good men, not so absolute in goodness
As to forget what human frailty is.Thomas Noon Talfourd
Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
David Hume
Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
Adam Smith
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