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“Formerly, if you killed a man, it was possible that you were insane—but now, if you, having friends and money, kill a man, it is evidence that you are a lunatic.”

— Mark Twain

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Source

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Wikiquote: Mark Twain
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Context

"A New Crime", first published as "The New Crime" in the Buffalo Express, 16 April 1870. Anthologized in Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old‎ (1875).

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

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