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1 " Becoming aware of the dearness in what might otherwise be regarded as mundane is the ultimate form of insight. "
― L.M. Browning , Fleeting Moments of Fierce Clarity: Journal of a New England Poet
2 " No nation is drunken where wine is cheap and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is in truth the only antidote to the bane of whiskey. "