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  • And God spake all these words, saying,Iamthe L thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that isinheaven above, or that isin the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the L thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Thoushalt nottakethename of the L thy God invain; for the L will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Remember thesabbath day, to keep it holy. Six daysthou shalt labour and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the L thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the L made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the L blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long uponthelandwhichtheL thy Godgiveththee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDORDORDORDORDORDORDORDExodus 20:1^17.

  • Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.

    - Arthur Hugh Clough
      The Latest Decalogue.

  • Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.

    -John Dryden
      Cleopatra speaking of love.  All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 5, sc.1.

  • La majestueuse e  galite   des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain. The majestic equality of laws forbids the rich as well as the poor tosleep under bridges, to beg inthestreets and to steal bread.

    -Thibault
      Le Lys rouge.

  • Like the Arabs, I fold my tens and silently steal away. See Longfellow 516:50.

    - George S(imon) Kaufman
    On winning at poker. Quoted in Scott Meredith George S Kaufman and His Friends (1974).

  • 'To steal my Basil-pot away from me.'

    -John Keats
      Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems, 'Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil', stanza 62.

  • Great poetsseldommake bricks without straw.They pile up allthe excellencestheycanbeg, borrow, or steal from their predecessors and contemporaries and then set their own inimitable light atop the mountain.

    - Ezra Loomis Pound
    Quoted in Patricia C Willis (ed) The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore (1986).

  • Il avait soixante et trois manie'  res d'en trouver toujours a' son besoin, dont la plus honorable et la plus commune e  tait par fa c° on de larcin furtivement fait. He had sixty-three ways to find the money when he needed it, the most honourable and most ordinary of which was to steal secretively.

    - Fran c° ois Rabelais
      Pantagruel, bk.2, ch.16.

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