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People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have al

People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. – Edith Wharton

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They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods. – Edith Wharton

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