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Henry Fielding - The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon

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"For it is very hard, my lord," said a convicted felon at the bar to the late excellent judge Burnet, "to hang a poor man for stealing a horse." "You are not to be hanged sir," answered my ever-honored and beloved friend, "for stealing a horse, but you are to be hanged that horses may not be stolen."

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Born: April 22, 1707
Died: October 8, 1754 (aged 47)
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