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Law-breaking   Listen
noun
law-breaking  n.  
1.
An act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act.
Synonyms: crime.





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"Law-breaking" Quotes from Famous Books



... of being depends primarily on self-control. Self-control is, therefore, in a sense, the whole law, for man cannot break any one law unless he breaks first this fundamental Law of all Laws. This implies that the demoralizing effect of sinning or law-breaking, on any one of the planes of being, does not depend so much upon the enormity of the deed as upon the loss of self-control. Continued weakening of self-control in trivial things may therefore, in the end, prove more ...
— Nature Cure • Henry Lindlahr


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