No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when cons…

James Branch Cabell
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No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them. ✨ James Branch Cabell (2005). Beyond Life, p.135, Cosimo, Inc.
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