“I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.”

— Edith Wharton , The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

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American novelist, short story writer, designer 1862–1937

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