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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation. – Claude Levi-Strauss

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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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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven. – Henry Fielding

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