“The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.”

— Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext95/hmirt10.txt (1905), bk.1, ch. 6

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American novelist, short story writer, designer 1862–1937

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