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Out Quotes by Edith Wharton
- What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
- 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…
- There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart…
- Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart
- She would not have put herself out so much to say so little.
- 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…
- He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found…
- 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…
- I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there…
- To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse…
- One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.
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