Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wa…

John Steinbeck
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Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him. ✨ John Steinbeck (2008). The Winter of Our Discontent, p.64, Penguin
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