You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages.
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P. J. O'Rourke174 quotes“You’re never going to read ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and you shouldn’t, really. It’s 900 pages.”
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