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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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