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Quotes from Preface to English Prisons Under Local Government by Sydney and Beatrice Webb — George Bernard Shaw

1856–1950 Ireland

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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.

Preface to English Prisons Under Local Government by Sydney and Beatrice Webb (1922)

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