The Autobiography of a Thief

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Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the original document have been preserved.
The Autobiography of a Thief
Recorded by HUTCHINS HAPGOOD Author of The Spirit of the Ghetto, etc.
NEW YORK FOX, DUFFIELD & COMPANY 1903
Copyright, 1903, By Fox, Duffield & Company
Entered at the Library of Congress, Washington, U. S. A.
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London, England.
Published May, 1903.
Oh, happy he who can still hope to emerge from this sea of error!
Faust.
There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake, but thereby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honour, or the like; therefore why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me? And if any man should do wrong merely out of ill-nature, why, yet it is but like the thorn or briar, which prick and scratch because they can do no other.