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I'd sell my soul to the devil if he'd buy such a weakly, puny, piffling little soul, just really to live and be something besides a "thoroughly nice girl" for one short year.


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Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.



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Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.



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