Each time you happen to me all over again.
("The Age of Innocence")
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Neither one of the couple cared for money, but their disdain of it took the form of always spending a little more than was prudent.Edith Wharton
I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.
Edith Wharton
The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder-the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?
Edith Wharton
She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptibilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.
Edith Wharton
To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
Edith Wharton
She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.
Edith Wharton
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