If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.
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Based on Keywords: adulthood, dessertThere is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
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