Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that …

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. ✨ Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. ✨ Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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