I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed...

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I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman

American poet, essayist and journalist

May 31st, 1819 - March 26th, 1892

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