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> [For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/for-if-you-suffer-your-people-to-be-ill-educated-and-their-manners-to/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/crimes-were-committed-to-punish-crimes-and-crimes-were-committed-to/)

[Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-green-ingersoll/)

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> [“Must crimes be punish'd but by other crimes, and greater criminals?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-gordon-byron/must-crimes-be-punish-d-but-by-other-crimes-and-greater-criminals/)

[George Gordon Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-gordon-byron/)

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> [If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bubbles/if-you-suffer-your-people-to-be-ill-educated-and-their-manners/)

[Bubbles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bubbles/)

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> [It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julius-caesar/it-is-the-custom-of-the-immortal-gods-to-grant-temporary-prosperity/)

[Julius Caesar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julius-caesar/)

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