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great wealth was a frightful handicap

Great wealth was a frightful handicap; it insulated you from living. The depression, whatever else you could say about it, had been a truly wonderful thing for the propertied classes; it had waked a lot of them up to the things that really counted. There wasn’t a family Priss knew that wasn’t happi…

—p.31 The Group by Mary McCarthy
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nacre

She has a thermal look. Nacreous skin, plumped with oysters.

—p.25 by Mary McCarthy
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they would rather be wildly poor

The worst fate, they utterly agreed, would be to become like Mother and Dad, stuffy and frightened. Not one of them, if she could help it, was going to marry a broker or a banker or a coldfish corporation lawyer, like so many of Mother’s generation. They would rather be wildly poor and live on salm…

—p.12 by Mary McCarthy
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