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TheRickles

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7. "Behind every great fortune lies a crime." - Balzac

Reply to Donkees (Original post)

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 07:45 AM

Yesterday

Turns out that's a simplified version of his actual quotation: "The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed". But it's the same idea, and Bernie is right (yet again).

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