WHAT DID KARL STEAL FROM CLARA?

Karl stole corals from Clara. Meanwhile, one of the authors at THE GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY hacked into famous sayings about theft, swiped a few, and stashed them in a secret spot.

Whoever finds them gets a compliment-reward from the editor-in-chief.

Which words should be put back in place?

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Greedy avarice is everywhere: those who can – … ; those who cannot – … (D. I. Fonvizin, The Minor).
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To … successfully, you need only dexterity and greed. Greed is especially necessary, because for a small … you can end up in court. (M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, The History of a Town).
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But give a … even a million — he still will not stop … (I. A. Krylov, The Peasant and the Fox).
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You are not a boy, she repeated, you are … someone else’s apples and believe it is not … because Monsieur Proudhon said so. (I. A. Goncharov, The Precipice).
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Malicious …, the critics said, is a crime more terrible than simple fraud, …, and murder. (N. A. Dobrolyubov, The Dark Kingdom).
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And so the Romans began … the poor and mastered this … to perfection, and they had laws by which their deeds were considered proper and honorable. (Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra).
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There is nothing worse than …, not because you cannot …, but because doing it in secret is dishonest. (Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Goldfish).
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And her hands were clean: she would not … anything, would not hide it, would not take what was not hers, and she was not …: she would not sneak a bite. (I. A. Goncharov, The Precipice).
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…, …, and ask: in these three words lies the whole secret of the courtier. (Pierre de Beaumarchais, The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro).
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After all, life is a place where we steal for profit and …, each in our own way; and we are, of course, nothing more than … who have stolen a little light. (Roger Zelazny, Jack of Shadows).

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