"Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves."
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"You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar."
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"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."
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"If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal."
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"Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal."
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"To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist."
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"Time's the thief of memory"
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"Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else."
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"Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?"
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"Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your felon by his features."
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"A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief."
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"I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'"
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"The "joker" here ["All Along the Watchtower" ] is the older [Bob] Dylan himself, whining about exploitation, and the thief's rejoinder re-contextualizes the earlier critique into the religious frames that would become more prominent as time went on."
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"Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long."
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"What a deformed thief this fashion is."
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"Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football. (in Thief of Time)"
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"It is opportunity that makes the thief."
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"The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace."
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"Opportunity makes a thief."
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"War brings out thieves and peace hangs them."
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