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Oliver Goldsmith Quotes about Crime

Crimes generally punish themselves.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield”, p.192

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.144