Edith Wharton Quotes

Presently He Rose And Approached The Case Before Which She Stood. Its Glass Shelves Were Crowded With Small Broken Objects - Hardly Recognizable Domestic Utensils, Ornaments And Personal Trifles - Made Of Glass, Of Clay, Of Discoloured Bronze And Other Time-blurred Substances.
'It Seems Cruel,' She Said, 'that After A While Nothing Matters ... Any More Than These Little Things, That Used To Be Necessary And Important To Forgotten People, And Now Have To Be Guessed At Under A Magnifying Glass And Labeled: "Use Unknown".'

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