Ex.5.21. Discuss the following quotations about Crime and Punishment with your groupmates. Say which of them – if any - reflects your point of view.

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1) (Of a burglar): He found it inconvenient to be poor (William Cowper. Charity)

2) ‘Excellent', I cried. ‘Elementary,' said he (Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: The Crooked Man) [A propos: ‘Elementary, my dear Watson' is not found in any book by Conan Doyle]

3) Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it (G.K. Chesterton. The Man who was Thursday)

4) It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are (O. Henry. Gentle Crafter: Octopus Marooned)

5) What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank? (Bertold Brecht.Die Dreigroschenoper)

6) When their lordships asked Bacon

How many bribes he had taken

He got at least the grace

To get very red in the face

(Edmund Clerihew Bentley.Bacon)

7) He would be astounded if you told him he was a crook. He honestly looks upon a fifty-fifty proposition as seventy-five for himself and twenty-five for the other fellow (W. Somerset Maugham. A Writer's Notebook)

8) In sentencing a man for one crime, we may well be putting him beyond the reach of the law in respect of those crimes which he has not yet had an opportunity to commit. The law, however, is not to be cheated in this way. I shall therefore discharge you (N. F. Simpson.One Way Pendulum)

9) She starts to tell me how she's married to an Italian with four restaurants on Long Island and right away I dig he's in with the mob. I mean one restaurant, you're in business, four restaurants it's the Mafia (Neil Simon.The Gingerbread Lady)

10) I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer (Oliver North.In Observer 7 December 1986)