Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant …

P. J. O'Rourke
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Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison. ✨ P. J. O'Rourke (2015). Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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