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— Marquis de Sade"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?"
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One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
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