An idea from Confessions

Pressed harder, the theft gives up a second motive. Alone, it would never have happened. The pleasure lay in the gang, the joke on the owners, and the moment someone says let’s go, when “we are ashamed not to be shameless.”

From Confessions by Augustine

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