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"One crime has to be concealed by another."

"But if I want to murder somebody, will it really be the best plan to make sure I'm alone with him?'Lord Pooley's eyes recovered their frosty twinkle as he looked at the little clergyman. He only said: 'If you want to murder somebody, I should advise it."

"Every sin is the result of a collaboration."

"Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another."

"A killer is someone who killed another without their country's permission."

"It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so."

"Base stealing, like crime in general, is increasing and is also getting more difficult to curb."
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"We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business."

"It is very wicked for you not to take care of your masters goods, but how much worse is it to pilfer and steal from them, whenever you think you shall not be found out."

"We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven."

"If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves."

"There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever."

"Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free."

"The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is."

"As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them."
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