"Every true man's apparel fits your thief."
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"To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws."
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"Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner."
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"A thief loves the night. I am day. I reveal essences."
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"We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have."
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"What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?"
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"We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves."
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"Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper."
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"My favorite movie ever is Bicycle Thieves."
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"If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade."
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"When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robb'd that smiles steals something for the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief."
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"My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers."
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"He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows."
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"For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks." Thus I became a madman."
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"A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief."
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"Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there."
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"Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him."
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"Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture."
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"The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated."
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"a man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat"
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