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  1. author: The poet Treherne in G.K. Chesterton's The Trees of Pride
  2. content: Show... when you next sit in judgement, a little mercy to some wretched man
  3. who drinks and robs because he must drink beer to taste it, and take it to drink
  4. it. Have compassion on the next batch of poor thieves, who have to hold things in
  5. order to have them. But if you ever find me [the poet] stealing one small farthing,
  6. when I can shut my eyes and see the city of El Dorado, then ... show me no mercy,
  7. for I shall deserve none.
  8. id: 6c7f27cc-a21d-450d-b819-cde50f3fa07e