"My friend Phil has a theory that the Lord, having made teenagers, felt constrained to make amends and so created the golden retriever."

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Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.

— Catherine the Great