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He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief
He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief
A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.
A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.
A thief believes everybody steals.
A thief believes everybody steals.
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
Stolen sweets are best.
Stolen sweets are best.
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten read more
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion.