“4788. The Thief is sorry he is to be hanged, but not that he is a Thief.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Even if he was a thief, he was my thief. I could not push him away anymore.”
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