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    --To live
    On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces,
    Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all
    Not yours. Given, uninherited, unpaid for;
    This is to be a trickster; and to filch
    Men's art and labour, which to them is wealth,
    Life, daily bread;--quitting all scores with "friend,
    You're troublesome!" Why this, forgive me,
    Is what, when done with a less dainty grace,
    Plain folks call "Theft."

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The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief,
He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief,
He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Thieving Quotes,
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The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his
sleeve.
[The Friar preached against stealing, and read more

The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his
sleeve.
[The Friar preached against stealing, and had a goose in his
sleeve.]

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A murderer and a villain,
A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe
Of your precedent read more

A murderer and a villain,
A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe
Of your precedent lord, a vice of kings,
A cutpurse of the empire and the rule,
That from a shelf the precious diadem stole
And put it in his pocket--

by William Shakespeare Found in: Thieving Quotes,
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To keep my hands from picking and stealing.

To keep my hands from picking and stealing.

by Bible Found in: Thieving Quotes,
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Well, well, be it so, thou strongest their of all,
For thou hast stolen my will, and made it read more

Well, well, be it so, thou strongest their of all,
For thou hast stolen my will, and made it thine.

by Lord Alfred Tennyson Found in: Thieving Quotes,
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He that is robbed, not wanting what is stol'n,
Let him not know't, and he's not robbed at all.

He that is robbed, not wanting what is stol'n,
Let him not know't, and he's not robbed at all.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Thieving Quotes,
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Do villainy, do, since you protest to do't,
Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery:
The sun's read more

Do villainy, do, since you protest to do't,
Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery:
The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction
Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun;
The sea's a thief, whose liquid surges resolves
The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief,
That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n
From gen'ral excrement.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Thieving Quotes,
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For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high
places of the city,
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For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high
places of the city,
To call passengers who go right on their ways:
Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that
wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

by Bible Found in: Thieving Quotes,
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'Tis bad enough in man or woman
To steal a goose from off a common;
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'Tis bad enough in man or woman
To steal a goose from off a common;
But surely he's without excuse
Who steals a common from the goose.

by Unattributed Author Found in: Thieving Quotes,
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