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

[Wilson Gray]

"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.
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Mario Puzo — 'Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand
men with guns and masks.' - Don Vito Corleone

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-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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