“Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.”
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“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
― The Hound of the Baskervilles
― The Hound of the Baskervilles
“Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.”
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“Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
― The Rainmaker
― The Rainmaker
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