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Sense Quotes by Edith Wharton
- I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What…
- Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her-of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally appreciated-he had the…
- What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
- The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key,…
- But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained…
- 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…
- He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless…
- He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast…
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