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To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton
Age: 75 †
Born: 1862
Born: January 24
Died: 1937
Died: August 11
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Translator
Writer
New York City
New York
Edith Newbold Jones
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
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Illuminated
Lines
Persian
Stills
Manuscripts
Still
Visit
Like
Subtle
Turning
Embroidered
Bright
Morocco
Shapes
Manuscript

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