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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.
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.]
He who profits by a crime commits it
He who profits by a crime commits it
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.
The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing
The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.
Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.
'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.
