Frederic William Farrar Quotes

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.

Frederic William Farrar

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  Frederic William Farrar
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