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Quotes from Notes on the General Principles of Employment for the Destitute and Criminal Classes — John Ruskin

1819–1900 England

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

Notes on the General Principles of Employment for the Destitute and Criminal Classes (1868)

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