Jules Verne quote about honesty from Around the World in 80 Days - Passports are only good for annoying honest folks, and aiding in the flight of rogues.
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Passports are only good for annoying honest folks, and aiding in the flight of rogues.
 Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days (1873). copy citation

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Author Jules Verne
Source Around the World in 80 Days
Topic honesty law annoyance
Date 1873
Language English
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Note Translated by George Makepeace Towle
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/103/103-h/103-h.htm

Context

“A robber doesn't quite like to leave traces of his flight behind him; and, besides, he is not obliged to have his passport countersigned."
"If he is as shrewd as I think he is, consul, he will come."
"To have his passport visaed?"
"Yes. Passports are only good for annoying honest folks, and aiding in the flight of rogues. I assure you it will be quite the thing for him to do; but I hope you will not visa the passport."
"Why not? If the passport is genuine I have no right to refuse."
"Still, I must keep this man here until I can get a warrant to arrest him from London."” source
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