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The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

George Bernard Shaw
Evil, Saws, Firsts
George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult
The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.