I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women,…

Edith Wharton
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I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast. ✨ Edith Wharton, Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis, Nancy Lewis (1988). The letters of Edith Wharton, Macmillan Reference USA
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