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Paul Ryan Politician
Crime

"Leaking classified information is a crime. And if we have evidence that somebody in the executive branch is committing a crime, we should prosecute that person."

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Philip Roth Novelist
Crime

"This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you."

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Charles Dickens Novelist
Crime

"My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims."

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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
Crime

"When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Crime

"I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth."

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