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The Lincoln Highway

by Amor Towles (Goodreads Author)

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Jun 13, 2022 09:34PM

“They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

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“...In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers...”
― Edith Wharton

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“I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

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“Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.”
― Lord Chesterfield

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“There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had crossed the Atlantic in a sailing-vessel, said, 'My dears, let her marry the first man she falls in love with, and she will make such a fool of herself that it will probably save her life.”
― Edith Wharton

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