#punish

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors. ↗

— James Buchan

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It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit. ↗

— Eli Khamarov

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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

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Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him. ↗

— Helen Rowland

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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. ↗

— George Sand

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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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