Reb Dov Baer of Mezritch said that a person should learn three things from a child and seven things from a thief.
From a child:
He is always happy.
He never sits empty-handed for a second.
He cries for everything he wants.
From a thief:
He works even at night.
What he cannot accomplish in one night he will try again the second.
All thieves love one another.
He will sacrifice his life for a trivial thing.
No object has a specific value attached to it and he will sell the most valuable thing for an insignificant price.
A thief will take a severe beating for what he has stolen but will insist he knows nothing about it.
He will not change his business for anything else in the world.
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