“What is the burgling of a bank to the founding of a bank?”

— Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera

Macheath, in Act 3, scene 3, p. 92
The Threepenny Opera (1928)

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German poet, playwright, theatre director 1898–1956

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