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“Men think wiles charming unless they find out your charms are wiles.”
― Tyne O'Connell, Latest Accessory

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“Not only was Miss Cribbe bearded, and always trying to get chummy with us like we we're her real children or something, but she had a disgusting incontinent springer spaniel called Misty, who was constantly sneaking in to the dorms and weeing on our duvets”
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“Darling, I'm so unutterably bored as to be a hazard”
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“It's called joining the property market - and it shits on war for stress”
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“I had entered a world that no one with an evolved sense of joie de vivre would touch with a barge pole - it's called "Joining the Property Market" and it trumps war for stress!”
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