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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 (1712-1778) French philosopher and writer
Confessions, ch. 6 (1781) [tr. Cohen (1953)]

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