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Crime Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
- Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
- PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.
- ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This…
- INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime. The…
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