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Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse? -- Robert Burns
A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman "? Spell It Or He'll Swing! -- J. K. Rowling
Every guilty person is his own hangman. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman. -- Luther Burbank
Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck. -- Eli Wallach
When things are difficult, awful, stressful, the thing that always gets you through is a sense of humour. I don't mean - well, maybe I do - laugh at the hangman as he puts the noose around your neck. But an eye, an ear, for the ridiculous, the absurd in life, can get you through a lot. -- Paul Merton
Every guilty person is his own hangman. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Hope and desire,All unfulfilled,Have more than ropeAnd hangman killed. -- Stevie Smith
Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash. -- Tim Wu
Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job. -- George Orwell
His achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room. -- Jonathan Larson
No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy. -- William Shakespeare
I ran into the preacher, said God was on my side, then I ran into the hangman. -- Neil Young
...Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor. -- Raleigh Trevelyan
Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment. -- Carl Jung
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman. -- Seneca the Younger
Adding an overarching tier of tyrants the EU to European governments has benefited Europeans as a second hangman enhances the health of a condemned man. -- Ilana Mercer
If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips. -- Robert Jordan
The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border. -- Robert Burns
I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips. -- Robert Jordan

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