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There's no such thing as old age, there is only
sorrow.
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Age And Aging
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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America
There
is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present
American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers
was when we were all feeding off their gold plate;
not now! At present they have not only my sympathy
but my preference. They are the last representatives
of our native industries.
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Bankers And Banking
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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Critics And Criticism
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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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Culture
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.
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Decisions
A New
York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
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Divorce
My
first few weeks in America are always miserable,
because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a
kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not
enough in sympathy with our ''gross public'' to make
up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends
are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we
don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the
wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house,
the most displaced and useless class on earth!
--
Exile
Edith
Wharton
1862-1937, American Author
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