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The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some ...

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For passion, like crime does not sit well with the sure order and even course of everyday life. It w...

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Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent...

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In a secular democracy, a person is supposed to be punished only when he breaks the law; never becau...

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If a man loses his money through unwise market speculation or by playing the horses, he has been pun...

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What a greater crime. Than loss of time.

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Thomas TusserFive Hundred Points of Good Husbandry as Well for the Champion or Open Countrey

Hawaii once had a rat problem. Then, somebody hit upon a brilliant solution. import mongooses from I...

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Tom RobbinsStill Life with Woodpecker

In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. We don’...

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Trevor NoahBorn a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

Sorrow and profound fatigue are at the heart of Dewey's silence. It had been his ambition to learn "...

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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. ...

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Victor HugoThe Last Day of a Condemned Man

When I started off, I believed that the true determinant of how great I was was through my lifestyle...

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Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religi...

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Of all the vices which degrade the human character, Selfishness is the most odious and contemptible....

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.

Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.

President Josiah Bartlet: Good. I like your show. I like how you call homosexuality an abomination.D...

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Aaron SorkinThe West Wing Script Book

A curse burns bright on crime.

Her sleep was enlivened by several dreams. One where Professor Wanstead's bushy eyebrows fell off be...

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It is romantic, yes,’ agreed Hercule Poirot. ‘It is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But y...

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I like a good detective story," he said. "But, you know, they begin in the wrong place! They begin w...

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If Hori were to die, I should not forget! Hori is a song in my heart for ever... That means-that the...

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I think people more often kill those they love than those they hate. Possible because only the peopl...

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It's all very well to talk like that,” said Mr. Rafiel. “We, you say? What do you think I can do abo...

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Agatha ChristieA Caribbean Mystery

The Roar of the engine penetrated through Bertram's Hotel from the street outside. Colonel Luscombe ...

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...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.''What is that?'' Conceit. A crimin...

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At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was...

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Agatha ChristieMurder on the Orient Express

You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?"It will not."If...

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Agatha ChristieMurder on the Orient Express

The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absu...

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Miss Howard: Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discover...

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Agatha ChristieThe Mysterious Affair at Styles

She breathed an enormous sigh, looked at Poirot, Looked away, and suddenly blurted out, "You're too ...

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For something to be a crime there must be both an actus reus and mens rea — that is, a criminal act ...

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Murder, other than in the most strict forensic sense, is never soluble. That dark human clot can nev...

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It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everyb...

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There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear bei...

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But as soon as a man, through lack of character, takes refuge in doctrine, as soon as crime reasons ...

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Albert CamusThe Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of t...

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And the thing has been said and said well have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smil...

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The actual history of interracial rape - according to FBI statistics - is that, since the 70's, appr...

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Ann CoulterDemonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America

Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convin...

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Anna QuindlenImagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City

The Government cannot be concerned any longer with outmoded penelogical theories. Cram criminals tog...

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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, ...

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It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most m...

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There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our professi...

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Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I ...

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Arthur Conan DoyleSherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories

Holmes took up the stone and held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just see how...

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a speciali...

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

That hurts my pride, Watson. It is a petty feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a pe...

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Illustrated

It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.

The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that...

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I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, bu...

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Return of Sherlock Holmes

They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with bui...

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There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on...

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The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard chiefly I think because it is so ...

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So I'm over there in England, you know, trying to get news about the [L.A.] riots... and all these B...

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I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely t...

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I have read of a gentleman who owned a so fine house in London, and when he went for months of summe...

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It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

There was no way possible [the queen] could have done all of the things the pamphleteers claimed. Th...

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Nature can counsel nothing but crime.

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Charles BaudelaireThe Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

Put the case that he lived in an atmosphere of evil, and that all he saw of children was their being...

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We’ve got DNA tests; we can convict someone by his saliva. Hell, if the killer had farted in that ho...

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What makes you think I’d know this woman?’ Hunter knew what he was trying to do. ‘Listen, P-Diddy . ...

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He’s my new partner JJ and I don’t think he likes you very much. Last guy he took a dislike to still...

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Hunter let go of JJ who started dusting his jacket with both hands. ‘Look at what you’ve done to my ...

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To start with, the overwhelming majority of serial killers are male,’ Hunter explained. ‘Female seri...

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Fuck you! Someone has tortured and killed one of your girls and you couldn’t give a damn? I thought ...

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Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...

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The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraord...

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It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's...

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