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A crafty knave needs no broker.
A crafty knave needs no broker.
Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay,
Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,
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Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay,
Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,
Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.
Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.
It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder.
[Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]
It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder.
[Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]
With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.
With his hand upon the throttle-valve of crime.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
