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Edith Wharton Quotes
«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.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
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«It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes, and bid her look forth on the world. But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? He shivered a little, remembering some of the new ideas in his scientific books, and the much-cited instance of the Kentucky cave-fish, which had ceased to develop eyes because they had no use for them.»
«After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.»
«When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
«How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?»