It's a nervous work. The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid of.
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Do you ever notice, asked Luisa, how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic . . . while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one.
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