CRIME
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Lives of master crooks remind us We may do a bit of time, And, departing, leave behind us Thumb-prints in the charts of crime.—Life.
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.—Voltaire.
Responsibility prevents crimes.—Burke.
If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father.—La Bruyère.
But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd. —Cowper.