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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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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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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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