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Edith Wharton

"They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods."

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"They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods."

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"A sense of having been decoyed by some world-old conspiracy into this bondage of body and soul filled her with despair. If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature."
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