American - Author | January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
Edith Wharton
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
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