The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.

