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It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly,

Source: Dolmanc?, in Philosophy in the Bedroom, Dialogue the Fifth: Yet Another Effort, Frenchmen, If You Would Become Republicans (1795).
-- Marquis de Sade, (Jun 2 1740-1814), French novelist; He was the author of erotic writings that gave rise to the term sadism; wrote Justine.

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