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“We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.” quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson — Download Open image

“We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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