“If you’re going to be businessmen, don’t confuse the vocation with larceny.”

—  Robert A. Heinlein, book The Rolling Stones

Source: The Rolling Stones (1952), Chapter 4, “Aspects of Domestic Engineering” (p. 61)

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American science fiction author 1907–1988

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