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— Oscar Wilde"Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away."
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Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would makemoney by it in this life, in the thirteenth they trusted their money to the Queen of Heaven because of their belief in her power to repay it with interest in the life to come.
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