The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat clean quite solvent business.

William Faulkner
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  2. She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.

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