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Now I know why tigers eat their young.
Al Capone
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Al Capone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1899
Born: January 17
Died: 1947
Died: January 25
Brooklyn
New York
Sunday Albert
Scarface
Alphonse Capone
Alphonse Gabriel Al Capone
Alphonse Gabriel Capone
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Tigers
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It's a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked.
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Once in the racket you're always in it.
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They've hung everything on me except the Chicago fire.
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In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody.
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I got nothing against the honest cop on the beat. You just have them transferred someplace where they can't do you any harm. But don't ever talk to me about the honor of police captains or judges. If they couldn't be bought they wouldn't have the job.
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My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.
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I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for
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Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.
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