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From: "Andrew Sellon" <>
Subject: Re: [HWE] On Persecution
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 11:40:35 +0100
References: <20030808082201.6606.h003.c001.wm@mail.leroy.ws.criticalpath.net>

Peter -

GBS was, in my opinion, one of the few people who could equal, on occasions,
my dear friend Rev. Sydney Smith in both pithiness and wisdom.

Thanks to a list member I have now further details of Sydney's (Huguenot)
mother's details.

Yours Aye Andrew Sellon East Anglia
Every law which originated in ignorance and malice, and gratifies the
passions from which it sprang, we call the wisdom of our ancestors. Rev.
Sydney Smith 1771-1854, Canon of St. Paul's.


From: <>
<snip>
> perhaps George Bernard
> Shaw had similar thoughts when he said...
>
> " When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do
> it is persecution; but when I prevent you from doing
> anything you want, that is law, order and morals."
>

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