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“Ah, good conversation — there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

“Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.”
― Edith Wharton

“There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.”
― Edith Wharton