edith-wharton

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She was like a disembodied spirit who took up a great deal of room.
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Of course, being fatally poor and dingy, it was wise of Gerty to have taken up philanthropy and symphony concerts.
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Miss Farish, who was accustomed, in the way of happiness, to such scant light as shone through the cracks of other people's lives.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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She keeps on being Queenly in her own room, with the door shut.
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What can you expect of a girl who was allowed to wear black satin at her coming-out ball?
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Mrs Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.
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If I were shabby no one would have me: a woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself.
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Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.
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Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.
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