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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.
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.
Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.
Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.
Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.
He who profits by a crime commits it
He who profits by a crime commits it
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who
lays the plot.
[It., Il read more
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who
lays the plot.
[It., Il reo
D'un delitto e chi'l pensa: a chi l' ordisce
La pena spetta.]
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.
With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.
Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it
Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it
