You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except p…

P. J. O'Rourke
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You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians. ✨ P. J. O'Rourke (2011). Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics, p.76, Pan Macmillan
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