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Robert Green Ingersoll [1833-1899] American Lawyer
Quote rank: 621

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All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him.

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