By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.
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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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While you have a thing it can be taken from you... but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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For the past two years, my brother has been portrayed as a bank robber, mentally disturbed, suicidal or worse, ... I can't believe that (investigators) still have my brother on the hook for this. We know my brother; everybody knows he is not a bank robber.
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An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.
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John 10:1:
'Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber.'
(NIV)
I ASSURE you, most solemnly I tell you, he who does not enter by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way (elsewhere, from some other quarter) is a thief and a robber.
(AMP)
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
(KJV)
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Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
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Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Politics
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I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
Politics
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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There is no robber worse than a bad book.
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