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Love Comes Home

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The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

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To Ralph the Sienese air was not only breathable but intoxicating. The sun, treading the earth like a vintager, drew from it heady fragrances, crushed out of it new colours. All the values of the temperate landscape were reversed: the noon ...more

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It's beautiful!

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I love her writing. This is beautiful.

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I love her writing, too. She was brilliant.

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“A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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“I concede that a bad romantic novel is embarrassing and indefensible. So is a bad so-called realistic novel. (And it is usually pretentious into the bargain which is insufferable.) But a good romantic novel is a heart-warming thing which strikes a responsive chord in those who are happy and offers a certain lifting of the spirits to those who are not.”
― Mary Burchell

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“And then when I got home I burrowed about among my books, arranging their volumes and loving the feel of them.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, In the Mountains

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