And there is all the difference in the world between…

And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being paid, – what will compare with it?

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Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851

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