HAMBERMAIDS use up more hair-oil than any six men. If charged with purloining the same, they lie about it. What do they care about a hereafter? Absolutely nothing.
Mark Twain, Choice Works.
HEN sorely tempted to purloin
Your pietà of Marc Antoine,
Fair virtue doth fair play enjoin,
Fair Virtuoso!
Frederick Locker, London Lyrics.
O man can be wise on an empty stomach.
Bartle Massey, in George Eliot's Adam Bede.