Edith Wharton Quotes
Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.
Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905.
The British had committed to self-government and independence for India. However, there was great pressure from Muslims for a partition of India to have a separate independent state—Pakistan. The British had to decide whether there should be a separate Muslim state and if so what area should it encompass?" 1st Baron Ismay
This was 8 years before the Russian Revolution.
Hitler’s concept of a “New World Order” was the Conquest of Europe by Germany and thereafter the control be Nazi Germany. Germany’s ally, Japan, also used the idea of a New Asian Order where peace would be brought to Asia controlled and enforced by Japan.
Edith Wharton was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper class New York "aristocracy" to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Among her other well known works are the The House of Mirth and the novella Ethan Frome.
