"Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property……" — Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it."
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- The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. — Douglas Adams
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