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A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

1944

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Redistribution of wealth

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George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw, George Bernard. Everybody's Political What's What? Constable & Company/Dodd, Mead & Company, 1944, ch. 30.

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