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

Rudyard Kipling

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I have seen something of this world,” she said over the trays, “and there are but two sorts of women in it– those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.
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