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I wonder why rich people always grow fat—I suppose it's because there's nothing to worry them.

— Edith Wharton The House of Mirth (1905)

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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

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