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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.
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face
He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief
He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief
The big thieves hang the little ones
The big thieves hang the little ones
To equal robbery with murder is to reduce murder to robbery, to confound in common minds the gradations of iniquity, read more
To equal robbery with murder is to reduce murder to robbery, to confound in common minds the gradations of iniquity, and incite the commission of a greater crime to prevent the detection of a less
A thief believes everybody steals.
A thief believes everybody steals.
Stolen sweets are best.
Stolen sweets are best.
