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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937), The Last Asset, 1904
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937), Vesalius in Zante
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)

Results from Classic Quotes:

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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