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  1. Edith Wharton _ Old New York: Four Novellas

    I hate in-the-end kindnesses: they're about as nourishing as the third day of cold mutton.
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  2. Edith Wharton _ Old New York: Four Novellas

    The "Hazeldean heart" was a proverbial boast in the family; the Hazeldeans privately considered it more distinguished than the Sillerton gout, and far more refined than the Wesson liver; and it had permitted most of them to survive, in valetudinarian ease, to a ripe old age, when they died of some quite other disorder. But Charles Hazeldean had defied it, and it took its revenge, and took it savagely.
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  3. Edith Wharton _ Old New York: Four Novellas

    For she was really too lovely--too formidably lovely. I was used by now to mere unadjectived loveliness, the kind that youth and spirits hang like a rosy veil over commonplace features, an average outline and a pointless merriment. But this was something calculated, accomplished, finished--and just a little worn. It frightened me with my first glimpse of the infinity of beauty and the multiplicity of her pit-falls. What! There were women who need not fear crow's-feet, were more beautiful for being pale, could let a silver hair or two show among the dark, and their eyes brood inwardly while they smiled and chatted? but then no young man was safe for a moment! But then the world I had hitherto known had been only a warm pink nursery, while this new one was a place of darkness, perils and enchantments...
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  4. Edith Wharton _ Old New York: Four Novellas

    Among all these stupid pretty women she had such a sense of power, of knowing almost everything better than they did.
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