He had been cheated out of his compensation, on a technicality, by the corrupt officialdom of the spaceways. He'd turned criminal then, and had been as ruthless to society as it had been to him. (Fredric Brown)

He had been cheated out of his compensation, on a technicality, by the corrupt officialdom of the spaceways. He'd turned criminal then, and had been as ruthless to society as it had been to him.

Fredric Brown

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