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"If you can't do the time, don't do the crime."

January 1, 1970

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Quoted among the Extension of Remarks of Charles B. Rangel before the U.S. House of Representatives, 25 October 1973, in the Congressional Record (26 October 1973) p. 35189; also in Paul du Feu, Let's Hear It for the Long-Legged Women (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973) p. 65. Variant ("you shouldn't" instead of "don't") quoted by Leo Aikman, "You're Never Out of Reach", in The Atlanta Constitution (28 May 1957) p. 2

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Quoted among the Extension of Remarks of Charles B. Rangel before the U.S. House of Representatives, 25 October 1973, in the Congressional Record (26 October 1973) p. 35189; also in Paul du Feu, Let's Hear It for the Long-Legged Women (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973) p. 65. Variant ("you shouldn't" instead of "don't") quoted by Leo Aikman, "You're Never Out of Reach", in The Atlanta Constitution (28 May 1957) p. 2