• Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.

    Edith Wharton: Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.
    Edith Wharton (2014). “Edith Wharton The Dover Reader”, p.222, Courier Corporation