“How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.”
A Summer Bird-Cage (1963; New York: Popular Library, 1977) p. 28 http://books.google.com/books?id=Q43gAAAAMAAJ&q=%22How+unjust+life+is+to+make+physical+charm+so+immediately+apparent+or+absent+when+one+can+get+away+with+vices+untold+for+ever%22&pg=PA28#v=onepage
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