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I can only say that you must have totally renounced all trust in the operations of the human reason; an attitude which, while it is bad Christianity and also infernal nonsense, is oddly enough bad Positivism too, unless I misunderstand that system.

— Edmund Clerihew Bentley Trent's Last Case (1912)

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That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile — that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.

Trent's Own Case (1936)

Is it a cosmic law, d'you think, that conceited men's hats are always too small?

Trent Intervenes (1938)

Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.

Trent Intervenes (1938)

When their lordships asked Bacon How many bribes he had taken He had at least the grace To get very red in the face.

What I like about Clive
Is that he is no longer alive.
There is a great deal to be said
For being dead.

Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)

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Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].

Thomas Jefferson Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764)

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