Eighth Commandment
Americannoun
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Longtime Working Politician Roosevelt would cooperate with Boss Tom Platt's state G.O.P. machine, then fight it, then cooperate again, as he put it, in anything that did not infringe "the Eighth Commandment and general decency."
From Time Magazine Archive
Bill Clinton, who is fond of quoting the Bible, might be tempted to remind Falwell of the Eighth Commandment: "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor."
From Time Magazine Archive
A. The Eighth Commandment is: Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Kinkead, Thomas L.
Mr. Reade has admirably demonstrated this in his "Eighth Commandment," a little book as full of wit, fact, argument, eloquence, and delicious audacity as any that has lately appeared.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various
I regained my respect for the Eighth Commandment.
From Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I by Masson, Thomas L.
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