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“It's undeserved success that people are so terribly afraid of losing; they know they haven't any way, themselves, of ever getting it back again.” quote by Mary Deasy — Download Open image

“It's undeserved success that people are so terribly afraid of losing; they know they haven't any way, themselves, of ever getting it back again.”

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