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"The quality of mercy is not strain'd," particularly when it doesn't have to do any heavy lifting

Shakespeare wrote that "a href="http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/25269.html"Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge/a," and that "a href="http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/25240.html"The quality of mercy is not strain'd ... it becomes the throned monarch better than his crown/a." But I'm not sure the Bard would have reacted with such noble sentiments upon seeing the handful of lightweight holiday-season clemencies a href="http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/11738/"offered up by Gov. Perry last week/a, mostly for penny ante offenses from decades past:br /blockquote· Jerry Wayne Crownover of Arlington, 54, was convicted in 1997 of making a terroristic threat during an altercation with his brother, a Class B misdemeanor. He was sentenced to 15 days in jail...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 22, 2008 (boomark / email).