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Crime Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever…
- I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.
- Every one should consider himself as intrusted not only with his own conduct, but with that of others; and as accountable, not only for the…
- ...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his…
- There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe…
- We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest,…
- Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
- Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.
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