but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Ind…

Terry Pratchett
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but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed? ✨ Terry Pratchett (2011). Snuff: (Discworld Novel 39), p.19, Random House
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