Quote by Pierre Corneille
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace. - Pierre C

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace. – Pierre Corneille

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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. – Michel Foucault

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Well, theres no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth. – Lady Gregory

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Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free. – Horace

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Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. – Edward F. Halifax

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