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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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.Edith Wharton
I despair of the Republic Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
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Grace Stepney's mind was like a kind of moral fly-paper, to which the buzzing items of gossip were drawn by a fatal attraction, and where they hung fast in the toils of an inexorable memory.
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It seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, even if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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