Surprised I didn't hand you over? But I...
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Surprised I didn't hand you over? But I couldn't hand over even a bedbug to that beast of a policeman! It goes against my grain. Don’t tremble at the sight of a policeman. So old and yet so cowardly! Finish your cheese, but eat it like a poor man, or else they'll still catch you. Do I even have to tell you how a poor man behaves?
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Why? Because he was a Turk—something he couldn’t do much about. An injustice! He got onto the gallows like Pontius Pilot into the Creed. In a word, I don’t trust you.
Brecht, Bertolt. John Willet, Ralph Manheim, eds., Collected Plays: Seven. London: Methuen Drama, 1994. pp. 203.
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