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Wanted Quotes by Edith Wharton
- She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing…
- And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead…
- 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…
- She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.
- We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?
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