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I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?

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Dodie Smith
Age: 94 †
Born: 1896
Born: May 3
Died: 1990
Died: November 24
Autobiographer
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Charles Henry Percy
C. L. Anthony
Dorothy Gladys Smith
Dorothy Gladys Beesley
Dorothy Beesley
Dodie Beesley
Pleasure
Money
Doe
Take
Things
Catch
Eventually
Plenty
Wonder

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