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There had been a period at the beginning of the five years she
[Nastasya Filippovna] had lived in Petersburg during which Totsky had
not spared any money on her; at the time he had still been counting on
her love and had tried to tempt her chiefly by comfort and luxury,
knowing very well how easily habits of luxury are acquired and how
difficult they are to give up afterwards when luxury gradually becomes
a necessity.
		-- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot, p. 130
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