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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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People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. – Edith Wharton

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They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods. – Edith Wharton

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