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Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Source: From her Journal, quoted in Biography of Distinguished Women, by Sarah Josepha Hale, 1876.
-- Elizabeth Fry, (May 21 1780-1845), English social reformer, philanthropist; She was one of the chief promoters of prison reform in Europe, who also helped to improve the British hospital system.

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