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"The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide."
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"This is the age of the specialist, and years ago Rollo had settled on his career. Even as a boy, hardly capable of connected thought, he had been convinced that his speciality, the one thing he could do really well, was to inherit money."
"I had one of those ideas I do sometimes get, though admittedly a chump of the premier class."
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