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A crime, which, though perhaps not considered by law as the highest, is in truth and in fact, the blackest sin, which can contaminate the hands, or pollute the soul of man.

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Henry Fielding · William Ernest Henley, ed., The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: Miscellaneous Writings (W. Heinemann, 1903), p. 162
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