“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”

from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation

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“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”

Aesop, Greek, fabulist, quote attributed, (Image source: Victoria and Albert Museum, free online admission)


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