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Many commit the same crime with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime another a crown.

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Juvenal
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Writer
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Many
Cross
Different
Commit
Crosses
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Bears
Crime
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Crown
Another
Crowns

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