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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being read more
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
A crafty knave needs no broker.
A crafty knave needs no broker.
He who profits by a crime commits it
He who profits by a crime commits it
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and read more
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
It is grievous to be caught.
[Lat., Deprendi miserum est.]
It is grievous to be caught.
[Lat., Deprendi miserum est.]
