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The High School Boys’ Training Hike

CHAPTER VIII
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If I were going to be a thief at all, I'd want to be an efficient one.

No stealing of wash from a clothes-line, or of pies from a housekeeper's pantry, when there are millions to be stolen in the business world." "Now, you're laughing at me," uttered Dave.
"No; I'm not." "But you wouldn't steal money if you had millions right under your hand where you could get away with the stuff," protested Darry.
"I wouldn't," Dick agreed promptly.

"I wouldn't steal anything.
Yet it's no worse, morally, to steal a million dollars from a great bank than it is to steal a suit of clothes from a house whose occupants are absent.

All theft is theft.

There are no degrees of theft.


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