Maybe that's just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few jokes.

Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton (; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman...

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