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Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowled...more

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It had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excelle...more

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In poor Rosamond’s mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

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Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

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Mrs. Bulstrode's naïve way of conciliating piety and worldliness, the nothingness of this life and desirability of cut glass, the consciousness at onc...more