I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet b…

Edith Wharton
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I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession. ✨ Edith Wharton, Marion Mainwaring (1994). The Buccaneers, p.115, Penguin
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