Without money, you can't be straightforward in your dealings with women. For without money, you can't pick… — George Orwell
Without money, you can't be straightforward in your dealings with women. For without money, you can't pick and choose, you've got to take what women you can get; and then, necessarily, you've got to break free of them. Constancy, like all other virtues, has got to be paid for in money.
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He had reached the age when the future ceases to be a rosy blur and becomes actual and menacing.
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