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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
But many a crime deemed innocent on earth
Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt
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But many a crime deemed innocent on earth
Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt
Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.
[Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.]
The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.
[Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.]
Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.
Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.
Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.
