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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal,

Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime? – Marquis De Sade

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Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? – William Shakespeare

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Its frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen. – W. H. Auden

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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. – Vladimir Nabokov

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