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The Golden Bowl

PART SECOND
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You don't have to, I mean, as I have.

It's the last folly ever to care, in an anxious way, the least particle more than one is absolutely forced.

If I were you," she went on--"if I had in my life, for happiness and power and peace, even a small fraction of what you have, it would take a great deal to make me waste my worry.

I don't know," she said, "what in the world--that didn't touch my luck--I should trouble my head about." "I quite understand you--yet doesn't it just depend," Mr.Verver asked, "on what you call one's luck?
It's exactly my luck that I'm talking about.

I shall be as sublime as you like when you've made me all right.
It's only when one is right that one really has the things you speak of.
It isn't they," he explained, "that make one so: it's the something else I want that makes THEM right.


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