"Anger should never appear in awarding punishment."
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"But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?"
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"If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it."
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"We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment."
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"No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be."
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"Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent."
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"O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with golfers."
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"Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment."
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"He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment."
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"Though punishment be slow, still it comes."
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"Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment."
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"Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life."
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"Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian in his person or property, I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment, as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it shall not be disproportioned to its guilt, at such a time and in such a cause."
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"We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take."
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"The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook."
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"If a slave were to raise his voice to his master, he risked all manner of punishment. Yet what was possible in many circumstances was to lift one's voice in song. This was a major ingredient in what is now known as blues and gospel. Slaves may have been regarded as subhuman by their cruel captors, but through music, they were proud and dignified."
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"One is punished best for one's virtues."
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"The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment."
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"I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages."
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"As if Spade's chivalry would allow him to do anything to a woman. The harshest punishment she could imagine him dishing out to Cat would be refusing to open a door for her."
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