# Quote — Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone

> Every human institution (Justice included) will stretch a little, if you only pull it the right way.

- Author: [Wilkie Collins](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilkie-collins.md)
- Book: [The Moonstone](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilkie-collins/the-moonstone.md)
- Page: 50
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilkie-collins/the-moonstone/every-human-institution

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> Rosanna Spearman had been a thief, and not being of the sort that get up Companies in the City, and rob from thousands, instead of only robbing from one, the law laid hold of her, and the prison and the reformatory followed the lead of the law.

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> Your tears come easy , when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it.

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> We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

p. 49 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilkie-collins/the-moonstone/we-had-our.md)