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How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments.

Benjamin Franklin

The Department has refused to allow the firm to tell its story to a grand jury, in violation of both Department policy and the basic precepts of fundamental fairness.

Arthur Andersen

Wittingly or otherwise, the US negotiating team has executed an apparent cave-in - embracing precepts crucial to North Korean objectives but inimical to Washington's own.

Nicholas Eberstadt

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

Noah Webster

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

George Farquhar