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It is impossible to anticipate all of the misdeeds engendered by the universal conflict of human passions. They multiply at a compound rate with the growth in population and the interlacing of particular interests that cannot be directed with geometrical precision towards the public utility.
Cesare Beccaria
Cesare Beccaria
Cesare Beccaria
Born: Mar 15, 1738
Died: Nov 28, 1794

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