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Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
Author:
Edith Wharton
Book:
The House of Mirth
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Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
( Edith Wharton )
[ The House of Mirth ]
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