Mornings, before daylight, I slipped into corn fields and borrowed a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn, or things of that kind. Pap always said it warn’t no harm to borrow things, if you was meaning to pay them back, sometime; but the widow said it warn’t anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it. Jim said he reckoned the widow was partly right and pap was partly right; so the best way would be for us to pick out two or three things from the list and say we wouldn’t borrow them any more – then he reckoned it wouldn’t be no harm to borrow the others.
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 12. Every now and then when they are by a village, Huck goes into a corn field and ‘borrows’ food. Sadly some of his ideas about life comes from his father. One is that stealing something doesn’t make you a bad person, as long as you intend to pay it back.