GENIUS IN RASCALITY
When we hear a magistrate censur* ing a ciiminal on his evil proclivities, and remarking that had he spent half as much labor in honest employment as he had done in the whole pursuit of roguery he might have earned sufficient to keep himself respectable, we look upon it as prime judical wisdom, and concur with the opinion expressed. But we seldom stop to think the high compliment the Bench has paid the prisoner, and what is more, we shut our eyes to the fact that had the rogue anticipated the magistrate’s opinion, and laboured in honest employment, the chances are remote that he would have had the same scope for his abilities His genius is consistent with his calling ; so applied, it has an excitement and ficiuation which tamer pursuits have not, and providing luck is good, ho would rather set his wits to work than plod for his bread like
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Dunstan Times, Issue 1276, 13 August 1886, Page 1
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