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House Quotes by Edith Wharton
- Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.
- I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with…
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