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Arthur Balfour Quotes: Society dead or alive can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.
         

Society dead or alive can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.


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Society dead or alive can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.
         



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