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To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky on justice

The Idiot (1868–9), Part 1, Chapter 2 (tr. Frederick Whishaw, 1887)

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