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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.
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
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.]
I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.
I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
[Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]
By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
[Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]
'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal;
But the sweet thefts to reveal;
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'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.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our
inclination.
[Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris
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Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our
inclination.
[Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris
Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.