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"Really," said her mother, "Edith touched the match to quite a large discussion when she suggested that you should open the safe for us."
To which I added that I had learned more that morning about the moral basis of economic equality and the grounds for the abolition of private property than in my entire previous experience as a citizen of the twentieth century.