There were penalties for fooling around… and all that was
required in dealing with these convict villains was severity and the constant,
literal application of the law. These inept executors of the law decidedly fail
to understand and are incapable of understanding that its literal application,
without any understanding of its sense of spirit, leads straight to its being
broken, and indeed has never lead to anything else.
The House of the Dead
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 –1881)
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