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To: Ostlandr
As Ben Franklin said, "It is better that a hundred guilty men go free than that one innocent man be condemned."

That's not Franklin, that's Blackstone, and it's actually, "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."

100 posted on 11/29/2005 12:12:42 AM PST by Melas (What!? Read or learn something? Why would anyone do that, when they can just go on being stupid)
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To: Melas

Thanks. I guess I better move the Bartlett's to the computer desk next to the Bible and the Latin dictionary.


107 posted on 11/29/2005 2:52:23 PM PST by Ostlandr ("Billions down the drain, and we ain't plugged it yet." - Federal Government motto)
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