Yarnell was a good man, thrifty and industrious, and he later became a prosperous house painted in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Three decades later, their country became a prosperous EU member, albeit with an oversized banking sector and a dicey tax haven status.

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If you are prosperous, you are going to get pitched, sooner or later.

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At a White House tea six months later, Wilson met a woman named Edith Bolling Galt, a plump and prosperous widow whose primary interests were travel and fashion.

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