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Very Quotes by Edith Wharton
- For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer…
- She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way…
- There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had…
- There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an…
- 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…
- The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the world outside tugging…
- 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…
- 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…
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