For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them. Thomas More
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Let your people be educated, let their manners be good, let them be brought up in the fear of God, and then punish them for crimes they commit. For by doing so you will not only prevent them from committing crimes, but also teach them that there is a God who punishes the wicked.

Source: Utopia

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