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Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.
Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.
There's not a crime
But takes its proper change out still in crime
If once rung on read more
There's not a crime
But takes its proper change out still in crime
If once rung on the counter of this world.
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.]
And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?
And who are the greater criminals--those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?
If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
[It., Oh! ben provvide il cielo,
Ch' read more
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
[It., Oh! ben provvide il cielo,
Ch' uom per delitto mai lieto non sia.]
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!
He who profits by a crime commits it
He who profits by a crime commits it
Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.
Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.