No one so dislikes being punished unjustly as the person who might have been punished justly on scores of previous occasions, if he had only been found out. (P. G. Wodehouse)

No one so dislikes being punished unjustly as the person who might have been punished justly on scores of previous occasions, if he had only been found out.

P. G. Wodehouse

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