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  1. Edith Wharton _ The Custom of the Country

    Any personal entanglement might mean "bother," and bother was the thing she most abhorred.
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  2. Edith Wharton _ The Custom of the Country

    What was the use of being beautiful and attracting attention if one were perpetually doomed to relapse again into the obscure mass of the Uninvited?
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  3. Edith Wharton _ The Custom of the Country

    They say New Yorkers are always in a hurry; but I can't say as they've hurried much to make our acquaintance.
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  4. Edith Wharton _ The Custom of the Country

    Even when it's the other way round it ain't always so easy to decide how far that kind of thing's binding… and they say shipwrecked fellows'll make a meal of friend as quick as they would of a total stranger.
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  5. Edith Wharton _ The Custom of the Country

    For four or five generations it had been the rule of both houses that a young fellow should go to Columbia or Harvard, read law, and then lapse into more or less cultivated inaction.
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  6. Edith Wharton _ The Custom of the Country

    It was characteristic of her that she remembered her failures as keenly as her triumphs, and that the passionate desire to obliterate, to "get even" with them, was always among the latent incentives of her conduct.
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  7. Edith Wharton _ The Custom of the Country

    Undine was fiercely independent and yet passionately imitative. She wanted to surprise every one by her dash and originality, but she could not help modelling herself on the last person she met, and the confusion of ideals thus produced caused her much perturbation when she had to choose between two courses.
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  8. Edith Wharton _ The Custom of the Country

    But his marital education had since made strides, and he now knew that a disregard for money may imply not the willingness to get on without it but merely a blind confidence that it will somehow be provided.
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  9. Edith Wharton _ The Custom of the Country

    During the interval between her divorce and her remarriage she had learned what things cost, but not how to do without them; and money still seemed to her like some mysterious and uncertain stream which occasionally vanished underground but was sure to bubble up again at one's feet.
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  10. Edith Wharton _ The Custom of the Country

    But it is comparatively easy to behave beautifully when one is getting what one wants, and when some one else, who has not always been altogether kind, is not.
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  11. Edith Wharton _ The Custom of the Country

    You might as well tell me there was nobody but Adam in the garden when Eve picked the apple. You say your wife was discontented? No woman ever knows she's discontented till some man tells her so. My God! I've seen smash-ups before now; but I never yet saw a marriage dissolved like a business partnership.
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  12. Edith Wharton _ The Custom of the Country

    Her entrances were always triumphs; but they had no sequel. As soon as people began to talk they ceased to see her.
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