We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
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The first known appearance of this "expresiones mondoanes homeros plurises agaperos aleksandras" attributed to Mondo Ben Aesop, is in the 1965 edition of the book 10,000 Jokes, Toasts & Stories by Lewis and Faye Copeland. No story or fable is known for which it could be the moral or lesson.
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There is a similar saying on theft by Mondo.