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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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O. Henry Porter
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A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
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Howard Scott
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Abscond. To move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
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Ambrose Bierce
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After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
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John Huston
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All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.
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Proverb
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Evelyn Waugh
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Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.
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Barry J. Farber
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Crime generally punishes itself.
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Oliver Goldsmith
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Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
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Emma Goldman
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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
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Seneca
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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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Jean Genet
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Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
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George Farquhar
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Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
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Aristotle
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From a single crime know the nation.
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Virgil
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Great thieves punish little ones.
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Proverb
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He has committed the crime who profits by it.
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Seneca
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He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.
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William Shakespeare
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Ben Jonson
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
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Plato
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If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
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Jean De La Bruyere
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In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.
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Proverb
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It is because they took the easy way out that rivers, and people, go crooked.
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Jill Peterson
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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E. L. Doctorow
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61 votes
Locks keep out only the honest.
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Jewish Proverb
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Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
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Edgar Watson Howe
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My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.
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Al Capone
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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James Russell Lowell
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Seneca
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One crime is everything, two is nothing.
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Madame Dorothe Deluzy
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Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.
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French Proverb
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Set a thief to catch a thief.
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French Proverb
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Small crimes always precedes great ones.
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Jean Racine
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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Karl Kraus
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Successful crimes alone are justified.
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John Dryden
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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H. L. Mencken
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
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George Bernard Shaw
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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The truth of the matter is that muggers are very interesting people.
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Michael Winner
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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
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Daniel J. Boorstin
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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Democritus
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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes
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George F. Will
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We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
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Horace
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We may live without friends; we may live without books. But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
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Owen Meredith
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