“Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.”
― Edith Wharton quote from her book The House of Mirth

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“Edith Wharton quote from The House of Mirth” sources: Portrait of Edith Wharton taken by E. F. Cooper, at Newport, Rhode Island, circa 1890. Cabinet photograph. Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University. / Wikimedia Commons
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