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“My True Name is so well known in the Records, or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old-Baily, and there are some things of such Consequence still depending there, relating to my particular Conduct, that it is not to be expected I should set my Name, or the Account of my Family to this Work; perhaps, after my Death it may be better known, at present it would not be proper, no, not tho' a general Pardon should be issued, even without Exceptions and reserve of Persons or Crimes.”

Should Wells May Persons Stills Book Names Known Records Crime Particular Consequence My Family Accounts Expected Exception Reserves Well Known Pardon Register

Book:Moll Flanders

Source: Moll Flanders

“Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.”

Ifs Men May Desire Crime Fool Accounts Faults Endeavor Fraud Despise Dread Cunning Knaves Insensible Duplicity

Author:Norm MacDonald

“Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.”

People Crime Accounts Greed Stupidity Foolish

Author:Louise Penny

“There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes - die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed. Now and then, alas, the conscience of man takes up a burden so heavy in horror that it can be thrown down only into the grave. And thus the essence of all crime is undivulged.”

Men Heart Hands Eye Suffering Dies Secret Mystery Crime Horror Bed Despair Conscience Essence Accounts Burden Heavy Graves Thrown Old Man Throat Permit Now And Then Alas

Book:Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

Source: Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

“Pettiness seems to go hand in hand with vindictiveness. The smaller the person, the larger the need for revenge. This may account for the fact that some consensual crimes have stiffer penalties than do most crimes with innocent victims.”

Needs May Persons Facts Hands Seems Crime Accounts Victim Revenge Innocent Penalties Hand In Hand Pettiness Vindictiveness Innocent Victims

Book:Ain't nobody's business if you do: the absurdity of consensual crimes in a free society

Source: Ain't nobody's business if you do: the absurdity of consensual crimes in a free society

“When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.”

Ideas Reason Night Memories Creative Crime Scene Accounts Awake Fragments Unreliable Fragmentation Eyewitnesses

Author:Jeffrey Kluger