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To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse of what I want.

To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse of what I want.

Edith Wharton
Mean, Want, Way
Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2162, Delphi Classics

She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.

Edith Wharton
Forgotten, Reason
Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2175, Delphi Classics

Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.

Edith Wharton
Flower, Unattainable, Firsts
Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2108, Delphi Classics

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
Sympathy, Attitude, Gold

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