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Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

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Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.15, University of Georgia Press
Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.