What hurts society is not that it should lose its property, but that it should become a den of thieves, for then it must cease to be society. (William Kingdon Clifford)

What hurts society is not that it should lose its property, but that it should become a den of thieves, for then it must cease to be society.

William Kingdon Clifford

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