"This miserable wreck can only be the impenitent thief, ultimately a man of integrity, who has retained enough conscience to prevent him from pretending to believe, under the protection of human and divine laws, that a minute of repentance is enough to redeem a lifetime of wickedness or a single hour of weakness."
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