"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

...for to be sunk, though but for an hour in your esteem is a humiliation to which I know not how to submit. -Susan
~ Jane Austen ~












...for to be sunk, though but for an hour in your esteem is a humiliation to which I know not how to...
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