For great and horrible punishments be appointed for thieves, wheras much rather provision should have been made that there were some means they might get their living, so that no man should be driven to this necessity.
Thomas MooreAbout author
- Author's profession: Poet
- Nationality: irish
- Born: May 28, 1779
- Died: February 25, 1852
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