"The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common; But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose."
— Anonymous

January 1, 1970

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"The Goose and the Common" (late 18th century), as quoted in Edward Potts Cheyney, An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England (1901) ch. 8