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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Poet
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Writer
Jicin
Criminals
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Justice
Nature
Straitjacket
Human
Squeezing
Humans
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Criminal

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