“A man who bets on greed and dishonesty won’t be wrong too often.”

— Robert A. Heinlein, book The Number of the Beast

Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter IX : Most males have an unhealthy tendency to obey laws., p. 82

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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