My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!
Edith Wharton... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.
Edith WhartonAn education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.
Edith Wharton