“Why is it that we honor the Great Thieves of Whitehall for Acts that in Whitechapel would merit hanging? Why admire one sort of Thief, and despise the other? I suggest, 'tis because of the Scale of the Crime.... Let Antony lose the world for Cleopatra, to be sure,―not Dick his Day's Wages, at the Tavern.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Mason and Dixon
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