I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which…

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I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge. ✨ Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). The Return of Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes #6, p.147, Zillmann Publishing
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