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Victor Hugo

“The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple.”

Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man
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The Last Day of a Condemned Man The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo
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