You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow t…

John Steinbeck
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You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk. ✨ John Steinbeck (2016). The Grapes of Wrath, p.68, Hamilton Books
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You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk. ✨ John Steinbeck (2016). The Grapes of Wrath, p.68, Hamilton Books

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