“With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.”

—  Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

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