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  • To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

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    William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.93
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To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain. - William Gilmore Simms
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