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"Opportunity is whoredom's Bawd."
William Camden, Remains concerning Britain, 1605, p. 329.

Isabela: Someone needs a good spanking.

The worst punishment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdclNfYWiXI

"She displayed to males the virgins unrobed. What humankind does, its prayers, fears, angers, and pleasures, delights and
excursions: farrago in my little book. And when was flow of vice fuller? When did palms open wider to greed & gambling?"
[Et maribus nudas ostendit Pyrrha puellas, Quidquid agunt homines, velum, timor, ira, voluptas, Gaudia, discursus,
nostri est farrago libelli. Et quando uberior vitiorum copia? quando Major avaritiæ patuit sinus? alea quando hos animos?]
Juvenal, Satire I, lines 85-86 [It were a foolish clemency to spare.]

Bishop Briggs — Welcome to My Dark Side
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4oFQ28dC0w

"A falcon, tow'ring in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed."
William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, Scene 4 [Old Man].

"The sense of shame amongst your equals, would restrain you from all fraud in obtaining a game at fives; so much
more now that you are a man, let it restrain you from all unfairness in this the great game of man. Be not the slave
of party, for this is the folly of the many for the benefit of the few. Recollect that you were not made for the party,
but the party for you; yet the interested demagogue will endeavour to lash you into the ranks, as the recruiting officer
lashes his enlisted soldier, or shoots the deserter from his company. Such a partisan is not a freeman, but a slave."
Hugh H. Brackenridge, Modern Chivalry, or, The adventures of Captain Farrago and Teague O'Regan, Chapter 18, 1792, p. 109.

Varric hints at his contribution to set darkspawn Aveline on her path of final destruction, confining Kirkwall damages.