Notes from Wikiquote
Poverty puts crime at a discount. | Reflections; alternately translated as: "Poverty sets a reduced price on crime"; in The Viking Book of Aphorisms (1962).
More quotes by Nicolas Chamfort
There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
The only thing that stops God sending a second Flood is that the first one was useless.
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