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Best One Quotes by Edith Wharton
- The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the world outside tugging…
- With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and…
- Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to…
- In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.
- It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.
- ...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than…
- I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with…
- The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took…
- One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.
- What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from…
- 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.…
- Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.
- The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle