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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Henry Fielding was a 18th-century English writer and judge. Henry Fielding was an English writer and judge known for the use of humour and satire in his works. His 1749 comic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling was a seminal work in the genre. Read more on Wikipedia →