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A Book of Remarkable Criminals

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A Book of Remarkable Criminals
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Publisher: Project Gutenberg
ISBN/ASIN: 1605890022

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Greed, love of pleasure, lust, idleness, anger, hatred, revenge, these are the chief causes of crime. These passions and desires are shared by rich and poor alike, by the educated and uneducated. They are inherent in human nature; the germ is in every man.

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