What men gain fairly -- that they should possess, <br />And children may inherit idleness, <br />From him who earns it—This is understood; <br />Private injustice may be general good. <br />But he who gains by base and armed wrong, <br />Or guilty fraud, or base compliances, <br />May be despoiled; even as a stolen dress <br />Is stripped from a convicted thief; and he <br />Left in the nakedness of infamy.<br /><br />Percy Bysshe Shelley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fragment-what-men-gain-fairly/
