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Firsts Quotes by Edith Wharton
- Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That…
- 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;…
- The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day…
- My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified…
- There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had…
- 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…
- As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six…
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