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If you want something and don’t get it, there are only two reasons. You either didn’t really want it, or you tried to bargain over the price

If you want something and don’t get it, there are only two reasons. You either didn’t really want it, or you tried to bargain over the price

July 20, 2019 Nate

— Rudyard Kipling


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