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Quote by Edith Wharton
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American

There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries. – Edith Wharton

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. – Edith Wharton

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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

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There are moments when a mans imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. – Edith Wharton

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With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away. – Lord Longford

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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. – Bertolt Brecht

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No one has a greater asset for his business than a mans pride in his work. – Mary Parker Follet

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Whats breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank? – Bertolt Brecht

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