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No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton
Age: 75 †
Born: 1862
Born: January 24
Died: 1937
Died: August 11
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
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Writer
New York City
New York
Edith Newbold Jones
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
Humans
Frail
Nests
Insects
Sustain
Thread
Insect
Vanity
Threads
Weight
Hangs
Human
Nest

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