"My object all sublime I shall achieve in time — To let the punishment fit the crime — The punishment fit the crime; And make each prisoner pent Unwillingly represent A source of innocent merriment."
— Punishment

January 1, 1970

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W. S. Gilbert (of Gilbert and Sullivan), "A more humane Mikado", The Mikado (1885).