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Commonplaces
Piquant excerpts lifted from Touchstone editors' own reading & listening.
The Ten Commandments . . . are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.
—Cecil B. DeMille
at the New York opening of his film The Ten Commandments (1956)
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