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Richard Whately Quotes: It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.
         

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.


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