“I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous, and very unhappy.”

Said in 1984, when interviewed on the occasion of her 50th birthday — as reported in Vocabulary Dictionary and Workbook (2006) by Mark Phillips, p. 17

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