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Been Quotes by Edith Wharton
- Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but an uncharted voyage…
- If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London;…
- Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
- Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least…
- She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must…
- I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in…
- I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another…
- But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained…
- Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and…
- The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the world outside tugging…
- Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to…
- Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to…
- She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on…
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