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 Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of 
nature.
 [Lat., Ars fit ubi a read more 
 Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of 
nature.
 [Lat., Ars fit ubi a teneris crimen condiscitur annis.] 
Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it
Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
 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. 
He who profits by a crime commits it
He who profits by a crime commits it
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and read more
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires
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.
 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.] 
 It is grievous to be caught.
 [Lat., Deprendi miserum est.]  
 It is grievous to be caught.
 [Lat., Deprendi miserum est.]