"Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything."
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"Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.“
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