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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
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.
Crime is a product of social excess.
Crime is a product of social excess.
Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.
Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.
He who profits by a crime commits it
He who profits by a crime commits it
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.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it
Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One
bears a cross for his crime; another a read more
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One
bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
[Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato;
Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]
