The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief’s bugle, but w…

Maya Angelou
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The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief’s bugle, but where to blow it. ✨ Maya Angelou (2014). Even the Stars Look Lonesome, p.26, Bantam
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