I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat cake". (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat cake".

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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