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What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician – these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.

— Polly Adler A House Is Not a Home (1953)

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Harold was tops as a cavalier; every day he sent me more gardenias than most people go to the grave with.

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Your heart often knows things before your mind does, and I think from this time on, psychologically speaking, I was already retired from the business I had been in so long.

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The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid — these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.

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