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The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

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Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

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She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.

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She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

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Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

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I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.

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Since she had been brought up to be ornamental, she could hardly blame herself for failing to serve any practical purpose; but the discovery put an end to her consoling sense of universal efficiency.

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What is truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe.

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There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you—we are sure to see each other again—but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part.

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