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The Age of Innocence: American Literature

Book by Edith Wharton · 6 quotes · Adventure, Amusement, Buried

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“He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.”