[Ads-l] Heard on American Greed: a proverb

[Laurence Horn]

Yes, as through this world I've wandered 
I've seen lots of funny men; 
Some will rob you with a six-gun, 
And some with a fountain pen

—Woody Guthrie, “Pretty Boy Floyd”

> On Jan 12, 2018, at 6:30 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> "You can steal more money with a ballpoint than at gunpoint."
> 
> Apparently a variation on or inspired by - or not
> 
> https://www.goodreads.com/.../510379-lawyers-can-steal-more-money-with-a-briefca.
> ..
> Mario Puzo — 'Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand
> men with guns and masks.' - Don Vito Corleone
> 
> -- 
> -Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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