Quotation:
"Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality."
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- "Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. "
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- "Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. "
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