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Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
Desire
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
Writers and Writing
George Eliot

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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
Injury
William Hazlitt

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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Forgiveness
Alexander Pope

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And where the offence is, let the great axe fall.
Punishment
William Shakespeare

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Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.
Generals
A. J. P. Taylor

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I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.
Churches
James Thomson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun