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Thought Quotes by Edith Wharton
- If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London;…
- You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute.
- In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only…
- It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all…
- 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…
- Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to…
- And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them ...
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