I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty and eating bananas for breakfast. - Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton: "I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty and eating bananas for breakfast."

Edith Wharton's Quotations

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Absence	Amenities	Bananas	Beauty
Breakfast	Crass	Despair	Developing
Dreariness	Eating	Food	Horror
Landscape	Manners	Nation	Republic
Sallow	Sense	Such	Utter
Whining	Whole	Without	Women

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