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“...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry - architecture being the least banal derivative of the latter.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.”
― The Pargiters
― The Pargiters
“Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
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