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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the
criminal.
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the
criminal.
Send them into everlasting Coventry.
Send them into everlasting Coventry.
And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for
eye, tooth for tooth, hand read more
And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for
eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his
neck, and he cast into the sea, read more
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his
neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of
these little ones.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
'Tis I that call, remember Milo's end,
Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
'Tis I that call, remember Milo's end,
Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can
bear.
And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can
bear.