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  1. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    That Greiner house, now-a typical rung in the social ladder! The man who built it came from a MILIEU where all the dishes are put on the table at once. His facade is a complete architectural meal; if he had omitted a style his friends might have thought the money had given out. Not a bad purchase for Rosedale, though: attracts attention, and awes the Western sight-seer. By and bye he'll get out of that phase, and want something that the crowd will pass and the few pause before.
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  2. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    If I were shabby no one would have me: a woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself.
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  3. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    One of the conditions of citizenship is not to think too much about money, and the only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it." "You might as well say that the only way not to think about air is to have enough to breathe. That is true enough in a sense; but your lungs are thinking about the air, if you are not. And so it is with your rich people-they may not be thinking of money, but they're breathing it all the while; take them into another element and see how they squirm and gasp!
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  4. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    She longed to be to him something more than a piece of sentient prettiness, a passing diversion to his eye and brain.
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  5. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    Her grey hair was arranged with precision, and her clothes looked excessively new and yet slightly old-fashioned. They were always black and tightly fitting, with an expensive glitter: she was the kind of woman who wore jet at breakfast. Lily had never seen her when she was not cuirassed in shining black, with small tight boots, and an air of being packed and ready to start; yet she never started.
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  6. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    The idea that any rash answer might provoke an unpleasant outburst tempered her disgust with caution, and she answered with a laugh.
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  7. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    She had once shown him the impossibility of such a hope, and his subsequent behaviour seemed to prove that he had accepted the situation with a reasonableness somewhat mortifying to her vanity.
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  8. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    To a torn heart uncomforted by human nearness a room may open almost human arms, and the being to whom no four walls mean more than any others, is, at such hours, expatriate everywhere.
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  9. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    What right had she to dream the dreams of loveliness?
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  10. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    I can't bear to see myself in my own thoughts-I hate ugliness, you know
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  11. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    The light extinguished, they lay still in the darkness, Gerty shrinking to the outer edge of the narrow couch to avoid contact with her bed-fellow. Knowing that Lily disliked to be caressed, she had long ago learned to check her demonstrative impulses toward her friend.
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  12. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    Hold me, Gerty, hold me, or I shall think of things.
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