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Great Quotes by Edith Wharton
- The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
- I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was…
- 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…
- But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes…
- ...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than…
- One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.
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