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Laurie Horowitz The Family Fortune

For my father, Benedict Horowitz,

who would have been so proud

All the privilege, I claim for my own sex…is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

—Jane Austen, Persuasion

…and their prejudices reminded him of sign-posts warning off trespassers who have long since ceased to intrude. —Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country

And this is good old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots And the Cabots talk only to God. —John Collins Bossidy