"Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers."
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"Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly."
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"Targets don't fight crime."
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"I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable."
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"One crime has to be concealed by another."
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"He has committed the crime who profits by it."
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"The continued increase in many crime indicators and the fact that the overall crime rate has not seen a marked decrease while the Liberals have been in power is a clear indication that the Liberal approach to combating crime, as on so many other issues, has failed."
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"Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them."
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"All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such."
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"The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting."
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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.]"
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"Every crime destroys more Edens than our own"
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"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."
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"Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes"
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"Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience."
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"The crime of a mother is a heavy burden."
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"Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness."
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"It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society."
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"I think that Brighton, for a crime writer, is almost like a character."
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"The pathways of crime are clearly marked. There's a doublecross on every corner."
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