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There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

Edith Wharton
Wife, Trying, Use
Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2085, Delphi Classics

..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

Edith Wharton
Husband, Ties, Wife
Edith Wharton (2016). “The Age of Innocence: American Literature”, p.192, VM eBooks

As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep

Edith Wharton
Wife, Long, House
Edith Wharton (2006). “The Age of Innocence”, p.148, OUP Oxford

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