... you know my belief in bald-headed Fortune, with the one solitary hair. Well, I meant to grab that hair...
...women have done strange things; they are a far greater puzzle to the student of human nature than the sterner, less complex sex has ever been.
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...women have done strange things; they are a far greater puzzle to the student of human nature than the sterner, less complex sex has ever been.
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