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| Neither one of the couple cared for money, but their disdain of it took the form of always spending a little more than was prudent. | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth |  |
| It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness. | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth |  |
| Grace Stepney's mind was like a kind of moral fly-paper, to which the buzzing items of gossip were drawn by a fatal attraction, and where they hung fast in the toils of an inexorable memory. | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth |  |
| . . . she was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company . . . | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth |  |
| Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self-depreciation. | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth |  |
| She had never been able to understand the laws of a universe which was so ready to leave her out of its calculations. | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth |  |
| No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth |  |
| As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth |  |
| Before Selden left college he had learned that there are as many different ways of going without money as of spending it. | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth |  |
| If she was faintly aware of fresh difficulties ahead, she was sure of her ability to meet them: it was characteristic of her to feel that the only problems she could not solve were those with which she was familiar. | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth |  |