• eestileib
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    1 year ago

    The court is for sale. It’s a hog trough. I don’t think any of them give a fuck about their reputations.

    Clarence Thomas might as well be Falstaff:

    “Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o’ Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. ‘Tis insensible, then. Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I’ll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon: and so ends my catechism.”

    (Henry IV part 1 act V scene 1)