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Sons of the Soil

CHAPTER V
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Don't steal anything, make people give it to you.

Theft leads to murder, and murder brings down the justice of men.

The razor of justice,--_that's_ what you've got to fear; it lets the rich sleep easy and keeps the poor awake.

Learn to read.

Education will teach you ways to grab money under cover of the law, like that fine Monsieur Gaubertin; why, you can even be a land-steward like Monsieur Sibilet here, who gets his rations out of Monsieur le comte.


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