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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.
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.
Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.
I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.
I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.
Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.
Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
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.
The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing
The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing
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.]