"Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause."
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"Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.“
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