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How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?
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Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
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Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
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Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
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Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
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Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
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Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.
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Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)

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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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