I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each … - Edith Wharton

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We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes.

Edith Wharton

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

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whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.

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