What we call real estate -- the solid ground to build a house on -- is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests. A man will commit almost any wrong -- he will heap an immense pile of wickedness, as hard as granite, and which will weigh as heavily upon his soul, to eternal ages -- only to build a great, gloomy, dark-chambered mansion, for himself to die in.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
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