Human Instincts Quotes by Edith Wharton

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• The moment my eyes fell on him, I was content.
• Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their…
• We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!
• How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened,…
• There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.
• It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside…
• It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.
• It is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that…
• As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its…
• Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on.
• The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.
• Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.

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