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to be guilty

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To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent. Nelson Algren

In England a man is presoomed to be innocent till he's proved guilty an' they take it f 'r granted he's guilty. In this counthry a man is presoomed to be guilty ontil he's proved guilty an' afther that he's presoomed to be innocent. Finley Peter Dunne

To be judged by the state as an innocent, is to be guilty. It is to sanction, through passivity and obedience, the array of crimes carried out by the state. Chris Hedges

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements. Piers Anthony

To have merit to abstain from a fault, is a manner to be guilty. Marguerite Yourcenar

Better to be guilty in the eyes of men than in the eyes of God. Madagascan Proverb

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