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Long Quotes by Edith Wharton
- When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as…
- There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long…
- Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept…
- But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer
- It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.
- 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…
- And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead…
- Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one…
- 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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