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where you find your purest pleasure

is where you will locate your fondest fortune

though tongues may wag

Remember

in the end

reputations really only tarnish

they don't really get ruined

that is just a myth

created by one too many

over zealous moralists

the Eighteenth Century must have been

hell on a person's social life!...........

(Dec. 5, 1997)

Author's Notes/Comments: 

inspired by reading Edith Wharton's The Age Of Innocence.

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