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...foreigners in Berlin the tale had a familiar sound. They remembered, dimly, having heard other versions, all pointing toward the moral that "the guilty flee when no man pursueth." But the Germans, as they passed the story around last week, knew it might be true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Of Greed & Guilt | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...rumor that the U.S.S. Omaha was coming to Liberia, 15 German citizens packed up and left by fishing boat for the French Ivory Coast. According to Monrovian rumor, they did not stop running until they got to Hamburg. Crowed President Barclay Biblically: "The wicked flee when no man pursueth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBERIA: The Wicked Flee | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...written rule that the wicked flee when no man pursueth, and however limited or absolute that truth may be, it suggests another, to the effect that trusting to human nature when there are no patrolmen does not pay in our stage of civilization. So in regard for such an axiom the New Jersey Legislature after 12 years of agitation has passed a bill establishing a state constabulary. Such a bill provides for a state police force of two troops of 65 men each, the officers to be men who have served in the United States army with at least...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A STATE CONSTABULARY | 4/14/1921 | See Source »

...Wicked Flee When no Man Pursueth" is a character sketch of country life, rather clever in its plot, and naturally related...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 2/2/1892 | See Source »

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