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Turned Quotes by Edith Wharton
- The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her…
- 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…
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