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Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence Quotes: Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the
         

Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to


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The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

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