And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.
Edith WhartonIn our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.
Edith WhartonThe worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
Edith WhartonMost timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.
Edith Wharton