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Such verbal generosities were in fact only a humbugging disguise of the...
Author:
Edith Wharton
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The Age of Innocence
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Such verbal generosities were in fact only a humbugging disguise of the inexorable conventions that tied things together and bound people down to the old pattern.
( Edith Wharton )
[ The Age of Innocence ]
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