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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
[Fr., Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'echafaud.]
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
[Fr., Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'echafaud.]
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
[Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis erit.]
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
[Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis erit.]
With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.
With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal;
But the sweet thefts to reveal;
To be taken, to read more
'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal;
But the sweet thefts to reveal;
To be taken, to be seen,
These have crimes accounted been.
Crime is a product of social excess.
Crime is a product of social excess.
