It was a marvelous engine for doing violence to the spirit of thousands of laws without actually running afoul of so much as a city ordinance. (Kurt Vonnegut)

It was a marvelous engine for doing violence to the spirit of thousands of laws without actually running afoul of so much as a city ordinance.

Kurt Vonnegut

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