To some few millions of people D-e-c-e-m-b-e-r spells Christmas.
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Roast Beef, Medium by Edna Ferber
"I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work that a woman can do well."
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Roast Beef, Medium by Edna Ferber
"The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost."
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The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be!
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The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
"Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?"
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The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
"It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country."
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Everything may be labelled—but everybody is not.
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
"Ah, good conversation—there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing."
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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