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Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy - love which creates life?Unknown
2
At the street corner, a one-storey house built of freestone, but repulsively decrepit and filthy, seemed to command the entrance, like a gaol. And here, indeed, lived La Méchain, like a vigilant proprietess, ever on the watch, exploiting in person her little population of starving tenants.Unknown
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Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilisation reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?Unknown