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

— Edith Wharton · No category

“Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.”

— Edith Wharton · No category

“Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.”

— Edith Wharton · Art

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

— Edith Wharton · No category

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

— Edith Wharton · No category

“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 · Criticism

“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 · No category

“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.”

— Edith Wharton · No category

“Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.”

— Edith Wharton · No category

“Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.”

— Edith Wharton · Age

“The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.”

— Edith Wharton · Money

“True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.”

— Edith Wharton · No category