“Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not …”

“Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts? [...] Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.”

— Mark Twain

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Title: Wikiquote: Mark Twain
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Context

"A New Crime" (1870)

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Twain, Mark. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Mark Twain. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Twain

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