Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins. ✨…

Edith Wharton
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Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins. ✨ Edith Wharton (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated), p.4461, Delphi Classics
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