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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 45056 |
| QUOTATION: | They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980), U.S. short-story writer, novelist. of Herr Freytag and Mrs. Treadwell, in Ship of Fools, pt. 3 (1962). |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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