There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.


The Works of A. Conan Doyle: A study in scarlet and the Sign of four (ed. 1902)


There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.